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Most of Leitersburg was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1990. 5 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 147 buildings. Below: old-book passages.
The Leitersburg post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Leitersburg’s history is told.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
From Wikipedia’s history of Leitersburg.
Bell-Varner House, Huckleberry Hall, and Leitersburg Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Leitersburg, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Christian Russell, John Harbaugh. After the erection of Beard’s Church the the Reformed ad¬ herents worshipped there until 1826, when the first church was built at Leitersburg. Through the efforts of Rev. Henry Kroh, two Reformed church¬ es were organized and he became pastor in 1826.
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document relating to the history of this congre¬ gation bears the following title: Unser Grundsatze beim Ecksteinlegen der Evangelisch Lu th¬ en sclien Kirch e in Leitersburg. An English translation is herewith given: Declaration of our Principles at the laying of the corner stone of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Leitersburg; in the name of the Triune God, Amen. Since the
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Leitersburg had its own post office from 1826 to 1903.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Leitersburg post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
5 listings: 4 buildings, among them the Bell-Varner House (listed 1979, the first), and 1 historic district, the Leitersburg Historic District, with 147 contributing buildings. 156 historic buildings in all.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 →
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