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History · Bloomfield Township

12% of Bloomfield Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the McColly Covered Bridge.

1on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
On the National Register

1 historic place in Bloomfield Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1975
McColly Covered Bridge
Structures

Architectural styles listings

Howe Truss1

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Muchinippe
1840–1872
Bloom Center
1852–1905
18401930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Bloom CenterMuchinippi
Gone or out of use
Bloom Center Post Officepost officeFairview SchoolschoolMuchinipee Post Officepost officeSchool Number 1schoolSchool Number 3schoolSchool Number 4schoolSchool Number 5schoolSchool Number 6school
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Bloomfield Township
HodgeRea

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Questions about Bloomfield Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Bloomfield Township?

One place: the McColly Covered Bridge (listed 1975).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 (1), 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.