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History · Loudon Township

28% of Loudon Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Kilgore Union Presbyterian Church. Below: 2 old photos and papers from 1894 on.

1on the National Register
28%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
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From Loudon Township’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Loudon 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 writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Loudon Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewLouden Township Carroll County Ohio 1894: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Loudon Township, in brief

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

Loudon Township is one of the fourteen townships of Carroll County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 925.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,009 to 925 (-8%).

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

Timeline

Loudon Township, 1833 to 1962

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1833Post officeThe Kilgore post office opens
  3. 1894In the archiveLouden Township Carroll County Ohio 1894
  4. 20th century
  5. 1915In the archiveLoudon Township, Carroll County, Ohio 1915
  6. 1962Post officeThe Kilgore post office closes
By decade

Loudon Township, decade by decade

2 decades in the archive, from the 1890s to the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1890s–1910s2 items
Louden Township Carroll County Ohio 18941894Louden Township Carroll County Ohio 1894Loudon Township, Carroll County, Ohio 19151915Loudon Township, Carroll County, Ohio 1915
1920s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Today4 recent
Amsterdam, Ohio double Mail Pouch Barn2016Amsterdam, Ohio double Mail Pouch BarnAmsterdam, Ohio Methodist Church2016Amsterdam, Ohio Methodist ChurchMap of Carroll County Ohio Highlighting2015Map of Carroll County Ohio HighlightingMapState Route 43 in2007State Route 43 in
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Louden Township Carroll County Ohio 1894
Retake this viewLouden Township Carroll County Ohio 1894, 1894

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Loudon Township’s page.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Loudon Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1995
Kilgore Union Presbyterian Church
Kilgore Union Presbyterian Church
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Gothic Revival1
Kilgore Union Presbyterian ChurchGothic Revival

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Loudon Township

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

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Gordon H. BowerAmerican psychologist · b. 1932
Henry CrewAmerican physicist and astronomer · b. 1859
W
William Milligan SloaneUnited States historian · b. 1850
D
Doc BundyAmerican race car driver · b. 1946
E
Eddie MapleAmerican jockey · b. 1948
William CrozierUnited States Army Chief of Ordnance · b. 1855
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Kilgore, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Kilgore
Gone or out of use
Kilgore Post Officepost office
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Loudon Township
AbelAmsterdamKilgoreKilgore PresbyterianSimmonsSimmons Ridge

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Springfield TownshipIts storyBAmsterdamIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLee TownshipIts storyCPerry TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRumley TownshipIts storyB−German TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Loudon Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Loudon Township?

One place: the Kilgore Union Presbyterian Church (listed 1995).

Memory lane

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

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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 (6), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.