Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1901 on, and the census since 1840.
Conesville dates its founding to 1764 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1840.
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 Conesville’s history is told.
Conesville had its own post office from 1836 to 1914. Two other post offices 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).
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveConesville (Township); Manor Kill Business Directory
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of Conesville.
Conesville was first settled circa 1764 on a patent issued in 1754.
The town was formed in 1836 from the Town of Durham (now in Greene County) and the Town of Broome.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Conesville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Couchman lived at home until his father's death in 1857. He attended the district schools of his native town; and in 1862 was united in marriage to Mary Bloodgood, of Conesville. He first entered the political field as a candidate for Supervisor of the town of Conesville, in 1865, when he was elected by a handsome majority. As a proof of his popularity we need
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Gilboa, beginning at the center of the Schoharie creek, where the Manorkill empties in the same, thence along the north-westerly bounds of the town of Conesville to the extremity thereof, being the north-west corner of said town, thence easterly on the boundary line between the towns of Broome and Conesville to the east hne of a lot of land owned and occu-
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Couchman lived at home until his father's death in 1857. He attended the district schools of his native town; and in 1862 was united in marriage to Mary Bloodgood, of Conesville. He first entered the political field as a candidate for Supervisor of the town of Conesville, in 1865, when he was elected by a handsome majority. As a proof of his popularity we need
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.
One decade in the archive so far: the 1860s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Conesville.
1901Gilboa sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Conesville.
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 Conesville’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 489 and 1,621 people in every census since 1840.
19 censuses, 1840–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Conesville’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Conesville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1764, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Conesville’s post office opened in 1836, and the census of 1840 counted 1,621 people here.
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 (1), the Library of Congress (1), Wikipedia, 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.
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