Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the Dudley's Chapel and the St. Andrew's Episcopal Chapel. Below: 4 old photos and papers, maps from 1901 on, and the census since 1880.
The Sudlersville post office opened in 1839, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1870. Another post office, Sudler's Cross Roads (1811), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Sudlersville’s history is told.
Lost a third of its people between 1880 and 1890, then grew 4-fold.
15 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Sudlersville’s Wikipedia page.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Sudlersville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Sudlersville.
From Wikipedia’s history of Sudlersville.
St. Andrew's Episcopal Chapel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as is Dudley's Chapel just outside of town.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
Born hereJimmie Foxx is born here
In the archivePerspective view of porch from southwest. - The Villa, 890 Millington Road, Sudlersville,…One decade in the archive so far: the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Sudlersville’s page.
Retake this view · +15The 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.
Sudlersville’s post office has been open since 1839. Another post office, Sudler's Cross Roads, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Sudlersville post office opened in 1839, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1870.
Two places: the Dudley's Chapel (listed 1979) and the St. Andrew's Episcopal Chapel (1984).
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 →
From Wikimedia Commons (3), the Library of Congress (3), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.
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