Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1915 on and old-book passages.
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 Goshen Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Goshen Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Goshen Township is one of the fifteen townships of Hardin County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 529.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 562 to 529 (-6%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Goshen Township. 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 Goshen Township.
Passages that mention Goshen Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Goshen Township. Although Goshen township has no town nor railroad, it is one of the most progressive in the county, and its citizens are alive to the best interests of education, religion and progress. It has eight schoolhouses, all first class brick buildings and located as follows: No. 1, Millar School, on the Millar pike in the southwestern part of the township; McGuiggin, or Upper Dublin, two miles east of Pfeiffer Station. on Millar pike; Hottentot, northwestern part of the township; No. 4, Hopewell, on Kenton and Marseilles pike near the center part of
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As there are no streams to furnish water-power in Goshen Township, we found no early-erected mills, as has been the result in some sections where pioneers found good water privileges. We do not learn that there was ever a grist mill in the township, and very few saw-mills, and these have mainly been of the portable kind, for temporary use at the various points where used. About 1848-50, Harrison Pool erected a steam saw-mill, on land now owned by Emmons’ heirs. He was finally succeeded in the ownership of the mill by Josiah Roby, and he by James M. Bunce, who
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cing this church became a part of that county; hence, the full history of the society belongs to a history of Wyandot; but we have mentioned the fact of its early organization, as many of its members and ardent supporters were citizens of Goshen Township. The first church to effect an organization within Goshen Township, as its boundary lines were established in 1840, was the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, situated on the northwest corner of Section 30, on the Kenton & Marseilles pike, near the west line of the township. A class was
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.
Nobody well known was born in Goshen Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
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), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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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