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Pleasant Ridge ChurchPleasant Ridge Church · Photo: Ammodramus · CC0
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History · Glenwood Township

46% of Glenwood Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Pleasant Ridge Church.

1on the National Register
46%homes built before 1940
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On the National Register

1 historic place in Glenwood Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
2005
Pleasant Ridge Church
Pleasant Ridge Church, built 1898
Buildings
Pleasant Ridge ChurchBuilt 1898

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Glenwood Township

Nobody well known was born in Glenwood Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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David JanssenAmerican actor · b. 1931
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Edward BushnellAmerican distance runner · b. 1876
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Donald Roe RossAmerican federal judge · b. 1922
Harold W. BauerUnited States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recip… · b. 1908
Robert W. Porter Jr.United States general · b. 1908
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Chet A. WynneAmerican football player and coach · b. 1898
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Another post office, Crow, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Gone or out of use
Crowlocale

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Sumner TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWalnut TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGreenwood TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Glenwood Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Glenwood Township?

One place: the Pleasant Ridge Church (listed 2005).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (1), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.