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History · Moorefield Township

Moorefield Township’s post office opened in 1819, and 25% of its homes were built before 1940

1819first post office
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How Moorefield Township began

When was Moorefield Township founded?

1819

The Moorefield Township post office opened in 1819, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Moorefield (1819) and Nottingham (1851), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 377207 years
Founding year: the first Moorefield Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Moorefield 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 Moorefield Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Moorefield Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1819: 207 years of Moorefield Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Moorefield 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

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

Moorefield
1819–1984
Nottingham
1851–1862
Piedmont
1880–today
18101920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
East PiedmontMoorefieldNottinghamPiedmont
Gone or out of use
Little Valley MinemineNottingham Post Officepost office
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Moorefield Township
Moorefield Methodist EpiscopalNottinghamRankin Methodist Episcopal

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

Timeline

Moorefield Township, 1819 to 1984

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1819Post officeThe Moorefield post office opens
  3. 1851Post officeThe Nottingham post office opens
  4. 1862Post officeThe Nottingham post office closes
  5. 1880Post officeThe Piedmont post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1984Post officeThe Moorefield post office closes
The story

How Moorefield Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Moorefield Township.

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Moorefield was platted in 1815. The community derives its name from Michael Moore, one of the founders. A post office has been in operation at Moorefield since 1819.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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Famous people

Famous people close to Moorefield Township

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

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Mary MauriceAmerican actress · b. 1844
David HollingsworthAmerican politician · b. 1844
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Harry HazlettU.S. Army officer · b. 1884
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Jeremy GriffithsAmerican baseball player · b. 1978
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Skeeter ScalziAmerican baseball player · b. 1913
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C. J. ConradAmerican football player · b. 1996
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Nottingham Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAthens Township1 historic placenot 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 town

Questions about Moorefield Township’s history

What year was Moorefield Township founded?

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

Memory lane

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 Wikipedia, 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.