Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1895 on and the census since 2000.
The Glasco post office opened in 1830, 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 Glasco’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Glasco. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Glasco.
From Wikipedia’s history of Glasco.
Glasco's name was taken from a glass company located in the mountain area several miles inland. The glass was carried by horse down the "Glasco Turnpike" to the banks of the Hudson where it was shipped on for ports of sale. The settlement along the river where the glass was loaded became known as Glasco.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Glasco, cut from the printed page as they were published.
quarrying the stone he buys, and in his mill, and on his yard at. Malden, where he employs, on an average, 125 more. During the summer season his pay-roll at Malden alone amounts to nearly $1000 per week. He purchases stone at Malden, Saugerties, and Glasco, also on the line of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad, on the Delaware and Hudson Canal, on the Erie Railroad and several of its connections, the stone reaching tide-water from the latter source at Newburg, Jersey City, and Newark, lie has wholesale depots at Roch-
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
During the summer season his pay-roll at Malden alone amounts to over one thousand dollars per week. His stone is purchased at Malden, Saugerties, and Glasco, also on the line of the Ulster aud Delaware Railroad, on the Delaware and Hudson Canal, on the Erie Railroad, and several of ins connections, the material reaching tide-water from the latter source at Newburgh, Jersey City, and Newark, N .J. He has wholesale depots at Rochester, on the Erie Canal, at
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.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Between 1,692 and 2,099 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Glasco’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Glasco itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Glasco post office opened in 1830, 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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) 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.
