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History · Greene Township

27% of Greene Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Liberty G. Raymond Tavern and Barn and the Greene Township Center. Its Register listings are the Liberty G. Raymond Tavern and Barn and the Greene Township Center. Below: 8 old photos and papers and maps from 1905 on.

2on the National Register
27%homes built before 1940
8old photos & papers
1famous people
From Greene Township’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Greene Township’s past

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

★ 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.

Greensburg
1825–1904
Triumph
1830–1904
Kenilworth
1890–1905
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
GreeneGreene CenterKenilworthRices MillsTriumph
Gone or out of use
Kenilworth Post Officepost officeTriumph Post Officepost office
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Greene Township
East GreeneGreeneGreenlawn

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

On the map

Greene Township on the map, 1905 to 1994

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Greene Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Greene Township on the 1905 USGS mapGreene Township on the 1960 USGS mapGreene Township on the 1970 USGS mapGreene Township on the 1994 USGS map1905Bristolville sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Greene Township.

Help out

Start Greene Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Greene Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
The story so far

Greene Township, in brief

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

Greene Township is one of the twenty-four townships of Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 950 people in the township.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,015 to 950 (-6%).

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

Timeline

Greene Township, 1825 to 1905

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1825Post officeThe Greensburg post office opens
  3. 1830Post officeThe Triumph post office opens
  4. 1868Born hereGeorge C. Braden is born here
  5. 1890Post officeThe Kenilworth post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1904Post officeThe Greensburg post office closes
  8. 1904Post officeThe Triumph post office closes
  9. 1905Post officeThe Kenilworth post office closes
  10. 1905On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Greene Township, decade by decade

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.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 7, Engineering Shops Office, Southeast corner of Ninth & C Streets, D…
Retake this viewWright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 7, Engineering Shops Office, Southeast corner of Ninth & C Streets, D…

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Greene Township’s page.

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On the National Register

2 historic places in Greene Township

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

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
4
each building in a district counts
first listed
1975
Liberty G. Raymond Tavern and Barn
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Italianate2
Greek Revival1
Gothic1

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Questions about Greene Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Greene Township?

Two places: the Liberty G. Raymond Tavern and Barn (listed 1975) and the Greene Township Center (1978).

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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (3), the Library of Congress (8), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.