Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
2 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 73 buildings. Below: old-book passages.
The Roseboom post office opened in 1840, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, South Valley (1833) and Pleasant Brook (1850), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Roseboom’s history is told.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Roseboom’s post office has been open since 1840. 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).
From Wikipedia’s history of Roseboom.
The town was not settled until after the American Revolution.
The town was created from part of the Town of Cherry Valley in 1854.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Roseboom, cut from the printed page as they were published.
but has often officiated in various offices to which he has , been called by his fellow-citizens. He wa.s supervisor of' the old town of Cherry Valley prior to the organization of the town of Roseboom. Mr. Roseboom is a communicant of Grace church, Cherry Valley, and has been warden since the organization of the; parish ; to him is largely due its organization and present prosperity.
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ders. It retained its original dimensions until 1797, when the towns of Middlefield, Springfield, and Worcester were set off, and it was still further reduced in area by the erection of Roseboom, in 1854. Its surface is generally hilly ; Mount Independence attains an elevation of about 2000 feet above tide, and is the highest summit in the county. The waters of the centre and south part flow into the Susquehanna, while the
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Roseboom post office opened in 1840, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Two places: the Roseboom Historic District (listed 1998) and the Women's Community Club of South Valley (1999).
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 the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.
