Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the First State Bank of LeRoy and the LeRoy Public Library. Below: old-book passages.
The Le Roy post office opened in 1856, 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 Le Roy’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Le Roy.
Le Roy was platted in 1867, when the railroad was extended to that point. The city was named after Le Roy, New York, the native home of a first settler.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Le Roy, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Le Roy High School. The village of Le Roy comprises independent school district No. 5. The first school in this district was held in a house belonging to Daniel Caswell in the summer of 1857. That fall a stone schoolhouse was built in the old village of LeRoy. This stone schoolhouse, which has been demolished, occupied the present site of the Lutheran cemetery, and its foundations are still standing. When the village was started at Le Roy station, the new schoolhouse was built. This, with various
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the advent of the railroad and the building up of the new village of Le Roy this was sold to the Lutheran church organization and a new schoolhouse was erected. Le Roy now has a fine high school building. District 63. The first school in this district was taught in 1857 by Lydia Bonestell, in a small frame house, located in the southwest quarter of section 36. Soon afterward a small building was moved from Fillmore county and located on section 35. Serena Lytle and Mary Prentice were early teach-
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.
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.
Le Roy’s post office has been open since 1856.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Le Roy post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Two places: the First State Bank of LeRoy (listed 1986) and the LeRoy Public Library (1986).
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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