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History · Green Township

18% of Green Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: old-book passages.

0on the National Register
18%homes built before 1940
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Photo: Nyttend · Public domain

What stands out about Green Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Green Township, and 7 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Green Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

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

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

Sandy Spring
1818–1836
Stout
1836–today
Waggoner Ripple
1845–1906
Sandy Springs
1914–1919
18101920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
GemmerRockvilleSandy SpringsSquirrel TownStoutSunshineWaggoner Ripple
Gone or out of use
Cedar College SchoolschoolHigh Hill SchoolschoolLong Lick SchoolschoolLower Twin Creek SchoolschoolNeedmore SchoolschoolRussell SchoolschoolSandy Springs Post Officepost officeSulphur Lick SchoolschoolTwin Creek MissionchurchWaggoner Ripple Post Officepost office
9cemeteries and burying grounds inside Green Township
HayslipMcCallPointPuntenneySandy SpringsStep ChurchStoutSunshine RidgeYoung

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

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The story so far

Green Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Green Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Green Township is one of the fifteen townships of Adams County, Ohio, United States. The population was 552 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 651 to 552 (-15%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

From the old history books

What they wrote about Green Township in 1900

Passages that mention Green Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.

Henry Soott, West Union, Ohio, was bom March 6, 1838, in Green Township, Adams County. He lived in Jeflferson Township from 1840 till 1872, at which latter date he located in West Union. His education was acquired in the common schools of Jefferson Township, at the old academy at North Liberty, and…
A history of Adams County, Ohio, from its earliest settlement to the present time, including character sketches of the prominent persons identified with the first century of the country's growth ..1900 · page 231Read the page →
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Henry Soott, West Union, Ohio, was bom March 6, 1838, in Green Township, Adams County. He lived in Jeflferson Township from 1840 till 1872, at which latter date he located in West Union. His education was acquired in the common schools of Jefferson Township, at the old academy at North Liberty, and in the West Union Hisrh School. He taught in Green and Jefferson district schools for about ten years, and was a Digitized by

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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Timeline

Green Township, 1818 to 1906

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1818Post officeThe Sandy Spring post office opens
  3. 1836Post officeThe Sandy Spring post office closes
  4. 1836Post officeThe Stout post office opens
  5. 1845Post officeThe Waggoner Ripple post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1906Post officeThe Waggoner Ripple post office closes
By decade

Green Township, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Map of Adams County Ohio Highlighting2015Map of Adams County Ohio HighlightingMapAdams County Paleo-Indian District2013Adams County Paleo-Indian District
Famous people

Famous people close to Green Township

Nobody well known was born in Green Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Thomas H. PaynterAmerican politician · b. 1851
Ralph DavisAmerican professional basketball player · b. 1938
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Andrew EllisonAmerican politician · b. 1812
Damien BurroughsAustralian Paralympic athlete · b. 1978
Al BridwellAmerican baseball player · b. 1884
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Will P. StephensonOhio Jurist · b. 1868
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Jefferson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBrush Creek TownshipIts storyCMonroe Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNile Township1 historic placeB−RomeIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (2), 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.