The story
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From Wikipedia’s history of Woodside Township.
Woodside Township was organized in 1877, and named for tracts of woods within its borders.
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History · Woodside Township
Woodside Township’s post office opened in 1878, and 23% of its homes were built before 1940
Below: maps from 1986 on.
1878first post office
0on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
1famous people
Quick answers
How Woodside Township began
When was Woodside Township founded?
1878
The Woodside Township post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Wrightstown (1875) and Woodside (1878), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 252148 years
Founding year: the first Woodside Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
What stands out about Woodside Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Woodside Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Woodside Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Wrightstown
Woodside
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Wrightstown
Gone or out of use
Wrightstown Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Woodside Township
Trefoldighed MenighedWrightstown
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Timeline
Woodside Township, 1875 to 1986
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1875Post officeThe Wrightstown post office opens
- 1878Post officeThe Woodside post office opens
- 1879Post officeThe Woodside post office closes
- 20th century
- 1906Post officeThe Wrightstown post office closes
- 1917Born hereMyrton O. Wegener is born here
- 1986
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade
No old photos in the archives yet
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Add from your albumOn the map
Woodside Township on the map in 1986
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Woodside Township.
1986Battle Lake sheet · 1:100,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Woodside Township.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Bertha TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEastern TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townElmo TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townOak Valley TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Questions about Woodside Township’s history
What year was Woodside Township founded?
The Woodside Township post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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Sources
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 Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.