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Wabash Road wheat fieldsPhoto: Nyttend · Public domain
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History · Liberty Township

29% of Liberty Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1960 on.

0on the National Register
29%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Liberty 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 Liberty Township, and 8 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Liberty Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Liberty Township’s homes were built before 1957.
★ 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.

Skeels Crossroads
1850–1905
Chattanooga
1882–1905
Scudder
1889–1903
Brehm
1890–1897
Hinton
1890–1904
Durbin
1892–1904
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BrehmBursvilleChattanoogaDurbinHintonScudderSkeels CrossroadsStriptown
Gone or out of use
Brehm Post Officepost officeCenter SchoolschoolChattanooga Post Officepost officeDeitsch SchoolschoolDurbin Post Officepost officeForest Hill SchoolschoolHinton Post Officepost officeJoint School Number 10schoolLandfair SchoolschoolSchool Number 1schoolSchool Number 3schoolSchool Number 7schoolSchool Number 9schoolScudder Post Officepost officeScudder SchoolschoolSkeels Crossroads Post Officepost office
7cemeteries and burying grounds inside Liberty Township
LandfairLibertyLibertySaint Pauls LutheranSaint Pauls United Church of ChristSkeelsZion

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 Liberty Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
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The story so far

Liberty Township, in brief

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

Liberty Township is one of the fourteen townships of Mercer County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 909 people in the township.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 918 in 2010, 909 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Liberty Township, 1850 to 1960

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1850Post officeThe Skeels Crossroads post office opens
  3. 1882Post officeThe Chattanooga post office opens
  4. 1889Post officeThe Scudder post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1903Post officeThe Scudder post office closes
  7. 1905Post officeThe Skeels Crossroads post office closes
  8. 1905Post officeThe Chattanooga post office closes
  9. 1960On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Liberty Township, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Wabash Road wheat fields2015Wabash Road wheat fieldsSt. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church near Chattanooga2015St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church near Chattanoo…St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church near Chattanooga, outbuilding2015St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church near Chattanoo…Landfair UMC from southwest2015Landfair UMC from southwestMap of Mercer County Ohio Highlighting Liberty Township2015Map of Mercer County Ohio Highlighting Liberty Townsh…MapLiberty Mercer2006Liberty Mercer
On the map

Liberty Township on the map, 1960 to 1986

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

Liberty Township on the 1960 USGS mapLiberty Township on the 1986 USGS map1960Erastus sheet · 1:24,000

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Liberty Township

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

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Richard R. Schrock1945-, American chemist · b. 1945
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Richard SchoenAmerican mathematician · b. 1950
Rick DerringerAmerican rock musician · b. 1947
Earl WilsonAmerican journalist · b. 1907
Harry SchwartzAmerican politician · b. 1869
James Grover McDonaldAmerican diplomat · b. 1886
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Washington Township1 historic placeA−Black Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHopewell TownshipIts storyB

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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 (6), 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.