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History · Letart Township

25% of Letart Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
25%homes built before 1940
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Photo: Nyttend · Public domain

What stands out about Letart Township’s past

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

Lost villages6 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Letart Township, and 8 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Letart 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

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

Letart Falls
1826–1959
Applegrove
1850–1938
Saxon
1865–1917
Plants
1866–1932
Antiquity
1878–1942
Ulric
1899–1917
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AntiquityApple GroveCondevilleEast LetartLetart FallsPlantsSaxonUlric
Gone or out of use
Antiquity Post Officepost officeApplegrove Post Officepost officeEast Letart SchoolschoolFairview SchoolschoolLetart Falls Post Officepost officeMount Moriah SchoolschoolPlants Post Officepost officeSaxon Post Officepost officeUlric Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Letart Township
Letart FallsPlants

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

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

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The story so far

Letart Township, in brief

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

Letart Township is one of the twelve townships of Meigs County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 733 people in the township.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 675 to 733 (+9%).

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

Timeline

Letart Township, 1826 to 1959

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1826Post officeThe Letart Falls post office opens
  3. 1850Post officeThe Applegrove post office opens
  4. 1865Post officeThe Saxon post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1917Post officeThe Saxon post office closes
  7. 1938Post officeThe Applegrove post office closes
  8. 1959Post officeThe Letart Falls post office closes
By decade

Letart Township, decade by decade

Today3 recent
Map of Meigs County Ohio Highlighting2015Map of Meigs County Ohio HighlightingMapRacine L&D from Ohio2014Racine L&D from OhioOhio River north of Apple Grove2014Ohio River north of Apple Grove
Famous people

Famous people close to Letart Township

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

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Jenny HolzerAmerican conceptual artist · b. 1950
George Willis RitcheyAmerican astronomer · b. 1864
Royal RobbinsAmerican rock climber · b. 1935
Brereton C. JonesAmerican politician in Kentucky · b. 1939
Mary Emilie HolmesAmerican geologist, palaeontologist, teacher an… · b. 1849
Skip BattinAmerican musician · b. 1934
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Sutton TownshipIts storyB−Lebanon Township1 historic placenot 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 (3), 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.