Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the Union Valley Congregational Church, the Town Line Bridge and the Taylor Center Methodist Episcopal Church and Taylor District #3 School. Below: old-book passages.
The Taylor post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Union Valley (1847), Taylor Centre (1872) and Taylor Valley (1891), 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 Taylor’s history is told.
Taylor had its own post office from 1849 to 1954. Three 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.
From Wikipedia’s history of Taylor.
Taylor was within the Central New York Military Tract. The first settlers arrived around 1793.
The town was formed from the town of Solon in 1849. By 1865, the population was 1,167.
The Town Line Bridge and Union Valley Congregational Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Taylor, cut from the printed page as they were published.
One of his strange notions entertained at that time was the notion that he commanded an army of occupation. He meant to hold North Missouri and organize a powerful column of Confederates for active service in his new department. Taylor came to him from Buchanan county, preceded by the news of the savage blow dealt Morrison and a portion of Morrison's unregenerate regiment. Thornton proposed to Taylor a division of honors, he retaining command of the infantry, while Taylor took
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Geo. Taylor, j , At a court held for Orange county on Monday, the 26th November, 1792, this last Will and Testament of George Taylor, dec'd, was presented into court by Francis Taylor and Benjamin Taylor, Ex'ors therein named, and the said Will appearing to the satisfaction of the court to be altogether in the own handwriting of the said deceased, the same is admitted to be
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Ray county was again invaded. Taylor marched along the Liberty and Richmond road, in the direction of Richmond, leading the advance himself with twenty-four men. Next to Taylor was Thrailkill, and next to Thrailkill, Jo Macy. At the Conrow House, two miles west of Fredericksburg, forty-seven Colorada soldiers were encountered, commanded by Captain Moses.
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Taylor- Buford of San Bernardino, California, for her silhouette as well as that of her son, Erasmus Taylor, reproduced herein ; also for the following story, illustrating her courage and presence of mind in time of danger: In those early days of the settlement of Virginia, danger from marauding Indians was always imminent;
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.
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.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Taylor post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Three places: the Union Valley Congregational Church (listed 2002), the Town Line Bridge (2008) and the Taylor Center Methodist Episcopal Church and Taylor District #3 School (2010).
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 (3), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (3), 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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