Founding year: Wikipedia. First post office: 1814.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Annsville’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Annsville is more historic than 57% of U.S. towns, #627 of 758 in New York. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Annsville’s overall grade.
New York towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical New York town has 12.3 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Annsville’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (10% of New York towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
NoteThe founding year comes from Wikipedia alone; no second source gives 1793.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±11.3 points).
Founding year: Wikipedia (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Annsville’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost half of its people between 1860 and 1940, then more than doubled.
20 censuses, 1830–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Annsville’s Wikipedia page.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Another post office, Glenmore, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Taberg
1814–today
Glenmore
1851–1926
18101920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Blennes CornerBlossvaleCollins Mobile Home ParkGlenmoreGlenridge Mobile Home ParkLeisure VillagePine HillTaberg
Gone or out of use
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6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Annsville
Maple HillOld State Road ProtestantSaint AnnsSaint PatrickStanfordWhiffin
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Annsville was settled in April 1793 when John W. Bloomfield moved from Burlington, New Jersey to what is now the hamlet of Taberg, and erected a saw mill and a grist mill.
Annsville's territory is land first acquired by John and Nicholas Roosevelt in 1791 from the New York State Land Commission. This patent was for 530,000 acres situated in present Oswego and Oneida counties. Approximately 499,000 acres of the Roosevelt Tract became Scriba’s Patent in 1793 as partial payment of debts owed to the Scriba Bank by the Roosevelts. The land was divided into Townships at this time. Annsville contains portions of towns 1,2,3, and 8.
Passages that mention Annsville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Oneida County, New York1878 · page 162Read the page →
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of 1215 square miles.-(' 'An act was passed April 7, 1817, dividing Whitcstown and erecting the town of Utica ; and by an act of April 1 2, 1823, the town of Annsville was formed from the towns of Lee, Florence, Camden, and Vienna ; and by an act of April 12, 1827, the town of New Hartford was formed from Whitestown. April 13, 1827, Kirkland was formed from Paris. Feb. 21, 1829, Marshall was formed from Kirk-
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History of Oneida County, New York1878 · page 364Read the page →
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ward, and westward bears southward into the town of Verona; the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensbnrg Railway, running northwest from Rome, and entering the town of Annsville at its south line, near Fish Creek ; and the Rome and Clinton Division of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway, which leads from Rome southwardly to Clinton, connecting at that place with the Utica, Clinton and Binghamton Division of the same road.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Annsville, 1793 to 2010
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In 1793, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Annsville’s post office opened in 1814, and the census of 1830 counted 1,481 people here.
How does Annsville rank for history?
Annsville is more historic than 57% of U.S. towns, #627 of 758 in New York. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in Annsville?
20% of Annsville’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±11.3 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1983.
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).
From 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), the USGS Geographic Names Information System 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.
