Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: old-book passages.
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 Muhlenberg Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Muhlenberg Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Muhlenberg Township is one of the fifteen townships of Pickaway County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 813 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 901 to 813 (-10%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Muhlenberg Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Muhlenberg Township was created from portions of Scioto, Darby, Monroe and Jackson Townships on December 8, 1830, and named for Francis Muhlenberg, who settled into the area about 1820.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
On June 7, 1939, the county board transferred the territory of Muhlenberg Township district to Monroe and Darby Township schools with the elementary school at Muhlenberg to remain open. A remonstrance by the residents of Muhlenberg Township, protesting the action of the county board, was rejected due to the lack of sufficient signatures. In August of that year, the Muhlenberg Board of Education filed a law suit against the county board for the transfer of its territory.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Muhlenberg Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Pherson, 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).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
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 (4), 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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