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Below: old-book passages.
The Carroll post office opened in 1847, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Carrollton (1831) and West Carrollton (1833), 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 Carroll’s history is told.
Carroll’s post office has been open since 1847. 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).
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereLucius G. Tong is born here
Born hereJames J. Jeffries is born here
Born hereDavid Brandt is born hereFrom Wikipedia’s history of Carroll.
Carroll was laid out in 1829 at the junction of two canals. The village was named after Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737–1832), American politician, delegate to the second Continental Congress, and last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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Passages that mention Carroll, cut from the printed page as they were published.
in the English navy, but was unsuccessful, and soon returned to America and settled in Harrison County and later in Loudon Township of Carroll County, where he died. Andrew Thompson and wife after their marriage lived for a year near North Rumley, Ohio, and then bought land in Loudon Township, where he lived until his death on February 14, 1864, and she passed
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Growing up in Ohio, Orlonzo Myers came to Carroll County in young manhood and for a time worked for different farmers. About 1883 he moved to Jefferson, German Township, Harrison County, and after a brief stay there located at Jewett, where he was employed on railroad construction work and operated a sawmill until 1905. In the latter year he bought
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Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
The Carroll post office opened in 1847, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 →
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