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History · Ludlow Township

53% of Ludlow Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Rinard Covered Bridge.

1on the National Register
53%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Ludlow Township’s past

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

Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Ludlow Township, and 5 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Ludlow Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Ludlow Township’s homes were built before 1938.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

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

Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Flints Mill
1833–1914
Wingett Run
1873–today
Muskingum
1881–1911
Hohman
1890–1913
Carter
1899–1904
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BloomfieldCarterHohmanMuskingumWingett Run
Gone or out of use
Ludlow Elementary SchoolschoolLudlow High Schoolschool
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Ludlow Township
GrahamHallLudlow CatholicMuskingum Valley BaptistTice

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 Ludlow Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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The story so far

Ludlow Township, in brief

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

Ludlow Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Washington County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 289 people in the township.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 328 to 289 (-12%).

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

Timeline

Ludlow Township, 1833 to 1914

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1833Post officeThe Flints Mill post office opens
  3. 1873Post officeThe Wingett Run post office opens
  4. 1876BuiltRinard Covered Bridge is built
  5. 1881Post officeThe Muskingum post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1911Post officeThe Muskingum post office closes
  8. 1914Post officeThe Flints Mill post office closes
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Ludlow 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
1976
Rinard Covered Bridge
Rinard Covered Bridge, built 1876
Structures
Rinard Covered BridgeBuilt 1876

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Independence Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLiberty TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGrandview TownshipIts storyBBethel TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Ludlow Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Ludlow Township?

One place: the Rinard Covered Bridge (listed 1976).

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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 Wikidata (1), 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.