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History · St. Bridget Township

St. Bridget Township’s post office opened in 1869, and 69% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the St. Bridget Church.

1869first post office
2on the National Register
69%homes built before 1940
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How St. Bridget Township began

When was St. Bridget Township founded?

1869

The St. Bridget Township post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Fairland (1863), Saint Bridget (1869) and Manley (1881), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 132157 years
Founding year: the first St. Bridget Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
On the National Register

2 historic places in St. Bridget Township

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

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
4
each building in a district counts
first listed
1996
St. Bridget Church
St. Bridget Church, built 1908
Buildings
St. Bridget ChurchBuilt 1908

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Fairland
1863–1869
Saint Bridget
1869–1906
Manley
1881–1890
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Saint Bridget
Gone or out of use
ManleylocaleSummerfield Airportairport
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside St. Bridget Township
Holy FamilySaint BridgetShockley

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.

Clear Creek Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMurray TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRichland TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about St. Bridget Township’s history

What year was St. Bridget Township founded?

The St. Bridget Township post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in St. Bridget Township?

2 listings: 1 building, among them the St. Bridget Church (listed 1996, the first). 4 historic buildings in all.

Memory lane

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

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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.