The story
Read it all →How Fredericktown came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Fredericktown.
Fredericktown was platted in 1807, and named after Frederick, Maryland, the native home of a first settler.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Fredericktown
Fredericktown dates to 1807, and 29% of its homes were built before 1940
More historic than 94% of U.S. towns · #83 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
23 places in town are on the National Register. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1896 on, and the census since 1830.
1807founded
23on the National Register
29%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
5famous people
Quick answers
How Fredericktown began
When was Fredericktown founded?
1807
Fredericktown dates its founding to 1807 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1830.
First census: 161 in 18302020 census: 2,648219 years
How historic is Fredericktown?
A
What drives the grade ↓More historic than 94% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: Wikipedia. First post office: 1811.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Fredericktown’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Fredericktown is more historic than 94% of U.S. towns, #83 of 993 in Ohio. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its age lowest.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Fredericktown’s overall grade.
Founding era1807, from Wikipedia: founded 1776–1849, an older era than 75% of U.S. townsA−Homes built before 194029.1% of homes (±6.4) · typical OH town 14.5% · U.S. 8.4%A−National Register23 listings, 24 historic buildings, 90.5 per 10,000 residents · typical OH town 2.9 · U.S. 2.4A
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 94%
NewerOlder
Ohio towns of 2,500+ (993)Ahead of 92%
Ohio towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Ohio town has 2.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Fredericktown’s 90.5 sits above most of its state (92% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 24 historic buildings outnumber those of 80% of U.S. towns.
NoteThe founding year comes from Wikipedia alone; no second source gives 1807.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would still be A. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±6.4 points).
Founding year: Wikipedia (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 →
What stands out about Fredericktown’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Landmarks on the Register23 places on the National Register.A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Mapped building by building4 fire insurance maps, 1896 to 1915, drew every building in Fredericktown.On the map since 19153 editions of the USGS map, 1915 to 1961. Watch Fredericktown change.
★ What stands out · On the National Register
23 historic places in Fredericktown
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
places listed
23
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
24
each building in a district counts
first listed
1976
Tuttle House
Buildings
Architectural styles listings
Unknown19
Cummings, W.S.1
Tuttle HouseBuilt 1846
Brick Commercial BlockUnknown
Davis and Dague Grocery Store, OldBuilding
Dr. King HouseUnknown
Early Greek Revival CottageUnknown
Early Greek Revival HouseUnknown
Elias Delashment HouseBuilding
Fredericktown Presbyterian ChurchUnknown
All 23 listings
Gothic Revival HouseBuilding · listed 1979Henry Cassell HouseBuilding · listed 1979Hosack HouseBuilding · listed 1979James Reed HouseBuilding · listed 1979Lyman Wright BuildingBuilding · listed 1979Methodist Church, OldBuilding · listed 1979Samuel Beers HouseBuilding · listed 1979Sprague-Deaver HouseBuilding · listed 1979Telephone Building, OldBuilding · listed 1979Wilson S. Cummings HouseBuilding · listed 1979Bell HouseBuilding · listed 1979Greek Revival Commercial BuildingBuilding · listed 1979Greek Revival Farmhouse, OldBuilding · listed 1979Second Hosack HouseBuilding · listed 1979William Burch HouseBuilding · listed 1979
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Help out
Start Fredericktown’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fredericktown’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Every building
Fredericktown, building by building, 1896–1915
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
1896Sheet 1 of 2Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Fredericktown, 1807 to 1915
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1807FoundingFredericktown is established
- 1811Post officeThe Fredericrtown post office opens
- 1834
Born hereBenjamin Todd Frederick is born here - 1846BuiltTuttle House is built
- 1851Post officeThe Maple Grove post office opens
- 1855Post officeThe Maple Grove post office closes
- 1870
BuiltSamuel Beers House is built - 1883
Born hereGeorgia O'Ramey is born here - 1884
Born hereClarence Dill is born here - 20th century
- 1910
In the archiveEast College Street, Fredericktown, OH - Aug. 10, 1910 - 1914
Born hereRobert W. Levering is born here - 1915
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade
Fredericktown, decade by decade
One decade in the archive so far: the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1920s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
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2004On the map
Fredericktown on the map, 1915 to 1961
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Fredericktown. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1915Fredericktown sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Fredericktown.
Then & now
Stand where they stood
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this viewEast College Street, Fredericktown, OH - Aug. 10, 1910, 1910
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Fredericktown’s page.
Retake this view · +15People over time
Fredericktown, census by census
Grew from 161 people in 1830 to 2,648 in 2020, more than tenfold.
20 censuses, 1830–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Fredericktown’s Wikipedia page.
Famous people
See all →5 famous people were born in Fredericktown
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds
Another post office, Maple Grove, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Fredericrtown
Maple Grove
18101920today
Gone or out of use
Rural Home Farmlocale
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Fredericktown
BoydForestOld Fredericktown
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 Fredericktown’s history
What year was Fredericktown founded?
In 1807, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Fredericktown’s post office opened in 1811, and the census of 1830 counted 161 people here.
How does Fredericktown rank for history?
Fredericktown is more historic than 94% of U.S. towns, #83 of 993 in Ohio. 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.
What is on the National Register in Fredericktown?
23 listings: 23 buildings, among them the Tuttle House (listed 1976, the first). 24 historic buildings in all.
How old are the homes in Fredericktown?
29% of Fredericktown’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.4 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1960.
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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Sources
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (11), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (23), 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 Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.