Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 62% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: old-book passages.
More historic than 62% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Liberty Township is more historic than 62% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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 Liberty Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: our sources. 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 →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Liberty Township’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Liberty Township.
Liberty was platted in 1815. A post office called Liberty was established in 1814, and remained in operation until 1914.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Liberty Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Elihu Oren was the principal Underground Railroad station keeper in Liberty Township, and his station was often full of refugees on their way to Canada. Hon. Jesse N. Oren, in his history of Liberty Township, when speaking of these refugees, says: “They usually took passage in Abram Allen’s ‘Liberator,’ a large curtained carriage made for the purpose, and were driven by the light of the stars toward the land of promise.” Other adherents of the cause in Liberty were Joseph Coat, Abel Beven and Dr. Watson, at Painter - ville, and Samuel Haines, D. S. King, Andrew Strickle, W. M. Wain, and
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in Liberty Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Liberty Township is more historic than 62% of U.S. towns. 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.
35% of Liberty Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±23.5 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1974.
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).
From Wikipedia, 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.