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History · Londonderry Township

Londonderry Township’s post office opened in 1819, and 23% of its homes were built before 1940

1819first post office
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How Londonderry Township began

When was Londonderry Township founded?

1819

The Londonderry Township post office opened in 1819, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Londonderry (1819), Bond (1884) and Oakgrove (1884), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 710207 years
Founding year: the first Londonderry Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Londonderry Township’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Londonderry Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Londonderry Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1819: 207 years of Londonderry Township.
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Start Londonderry Township’s collection

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

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

Londonderry
1819–1907
Bond
1884–1902
Oakgrove
1884–1905
18101920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
LondonderryOakgrove
Gone or out of use
Blooming Grove SchoolschoolGreenwood SchoolschoolLondonderry Post Officepost officeOakgrove Post Officepost officeSchool Number 12schoolSchool Number 8schoolUpper Craborchard Schoolschool
7cemeteries and burying grounds inside Londonderry Township
BondBunfillsMcCoyQuakerScotch CovenanterSunset ViewYankee Point

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

Timeline

Londonderry Township, 1819 to 1907

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1819Post officeThe Londonderry post office opens
  3. 1884Post officeThe Bond post office opens
  4. 1884Post officeThe Oakgrove post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1902Post officeThe Bond post office closes
  7. 1905Post officeThe Oakgrove post office closes
  8. 1907Post officeThe Londonderry post office closes
The story so far

Londonderry Township, in brief

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

Londonderry Township is one of the nineteen townships of Guernsey County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 710.

Its first post office opened in 1819. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 727 to 710 (-2%).

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

By decade

Londonderry Township, decade by decade

Today3 recent
Map of Guernsey County Ohio Highlighting2015Map of Guernsey County Ohio HighlightingMapLondonderry Reformed Presbyterian Cemetery2012Londonderry Reformed Presbyterian CemeteryLondonderry Methodist Church in Guernsey County2012Londonderry Methodist Church in Guernsey County
Famous people

Famous people close to Londonderry Township

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

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Elisha GrayAmerican electrical engineer · b. 1835
Isaac ParkerAmerican politician · b. 1838
Nathan B. ScottUnion Army soldier · b. 1842
Mary MauriceAmerican actress · b. 1844
Jake RyanAmerican football player · b. 1992
William LawrenceAmerican politician from Ohio · b. 1814
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Oxford Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMadison TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFlushing Township1 historic placeA−Freeport Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townKirkwood TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Londonderry Township’s history

What year was Londonderry Township founded?

The Londonderry Township post office opened in 1819, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 (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.