Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: old-book passages.
The Lore City post office opened in 1876, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Gomber (1856), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lore City’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Lore City.
A post office has been in operation at Lore City since 1876. Lore City was not platted until 1903. The village was incorporated in 1906.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Lore City, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Millwood, Richland. Center, Cambridge, Adams and Westland, with its main line, while it runs through portions of Richland, Valley and Spencer, with a branch from Lore City to Cumberland. Beginning on the cast side of the county, the .station points of most importance arc Quaker City, Saleville, Lore City, Cambridge and Cassel Station, on the main line. On the Cumberland branch the stations worthy of note are Lore City, Scnecaville. Hartford and Cumberland. The only tunnel on this mad in the county is near Cambridge on the Baltimore & Ohio road.
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Lore City was incorporated in 1906 and the town officers have been but few, the present mayor, Roland Potts, having served two consecutive terms. The present officers are: Roland Potts, mayor: Cale Cross, clerk: \Y. H.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Lore City itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Lore City’s post office has been open since 1876. Another post office, Gomber, 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 Lore City post office opened in 1876, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (5), 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.
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