Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: old-book passages.
The Pewamo post office opened in 1857, 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 first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pewamo’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Pewamo yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Its first post office opened in 1857. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 469 to 503 (+7%).
Passages that mention Pewamo, cut from the printed page as they were published.
4o6 baptized in what was known as the Hathaway creek. On May 26, 1859, the church met in covenant. By the vote of the church appointments were changed from the Plains to the Red school house* north of Pewamo, near the Joseph Randolph farm, where they held Sunday morning; service and had covenant meetings the last Saturday of each month. Preaching in the White school house on ]chn A. Millard's farm, tliree and one-half miles northeast of Pewamo was lield on Sundavs, at two o'clock in the afternoon. One of
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and Clinton counties), 413; inci :irj)urated in 1867. Lake (Jdessa, 1,305; incoi |>orated in 1889. Lyons, 723: incorporated by the supervisors in 1859 and legalized the same year. Mnir. 522; incori)orated in 1871. Pewamo, 353; incorporated in 1871. Portland, 1.833; incorporated in 1869. Saranac, 777; incorporated in i86q.
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Nobody well known was born in Pewamo itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Pewamo post office opened in 1857, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 (2) and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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