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More historic than 59% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1926 on, and the census since 1830.
Woodhull dates its founding to 1804 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1830.
More historic than 59% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Woodhull is more historic than 59% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
New York towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical New York town has 12.3 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Woodhull’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (10% of New York towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
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 Woodhull’s history is told.
Woodhull’s post office has been open since 1828. 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.
Born hereJames A. Parsons is born here
In the archiveHedgesville (Village); Woodhull (Township)
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of Woodhull.
The first settlers arrived circa 1804. Among the first settlers were Caleb Smith, who built the town's first three houses.
The town was formed from the Towns of Troupsburg and Addison in 1828. In 1856, part of Woodhull was taken for the Town of Rathbone.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Woodhull, cut from the printed page as they were published.
On the 20th of November, 1835, 20 persons assembled at the house of John Kent, half a mile above the present village of Woodhull, and organized themselves into the First Baptist Cliurch of Woodhull. Their names were Seth Baxter and wife, John Kent, wife and daughter, afterwards wife of William P. Myers, Ira Smith and wife, Stephen Kent, Ephraim Wood and wife, Samuel Stone, Wm. Martin and wife, Maria and Emma Edwards, Philena Marce, Lucy A.
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is one of the earliest settlers, and one of the oldest lumbermen in the town. The gospel lot of one hundred acres, donated by the Pulteney estate to the first religious organization in the original town of Woodhull, is in Rathbone, joining the Woodhull line, and is farmed by the society, thirty acres of wheat having been grown on the newlycleared portion in 1878.
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In 1868 Hamilton Marlatt and Orin B. Baxter conceived the idea of building an academy in the village of Woodhull. Mr. Marlatt donated the lot, one acre of land in the most conspicuous part of the village, and the academy was built in 1868 by public subscription at an expense of $4,000. In 1877 the entire" property was conveyed to the school district for a Union Free School building, with an academic department. Professor Jeffreys of New Berlin, New York, was the first principal. He was succeeded by Daniel H.
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 1870s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Woodhull. 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 Woodhull.
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 Woodhull’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 501 and 2,207 people in every census since 1830.
20 censuses, 1830–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Woodhull’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1804, according to Wikidata. Woodhull’s post office opened in 1828, and the census of 1830 counted 501 people here.
Woodhull is more historic than 59% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
22% of Woodhull’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.8 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1982.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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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