Piercefield’s post office opened in 1895, and 48% of its homes were built before 1940
Its Register listings are the Arab Mountain Fire Observation Station and the Childwold Memorial Presbyterian Church.
How Piercefield began
When was Piercefield founded?
The Piercefield post office opened in 1895, the earliest record of the town by name. Five smaller post offices, Childwood (1884), Gale (1887) and Horseshoe (1896), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2 historic places in Piercefield
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Architectural styles listings
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Piercefield’s post office has been open since 1895. Five 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).
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Piercefield’s history
What year was Piercefield founded?
The Piercefield post office opened in 1895, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What is on the National Register in Piercefield?
Two places: the Arab Mountain Fire Observation Station (listed 2001) and the Childwold Memorial Presbyterian Church (2001).
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.