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 Penn Township’s history is told.
Three other post offices 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).
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Penn Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Penn Township is one of the fourteen townships of Morgan County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 656 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 715 to 656 (-8%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Penn Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Jonathan and Ann Pierpoint came from Columbiana County, Ohio, to Morgan in 1820. They settled on Wolf Creek in Penn Township, seven miles south of McOonnelsville. lie was a miller by trade, and the following year 1827, he built a sawmill on the creek, and in 1828 erected a gristmill. They
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James Mitchner was one of the earlv t/ settlers of Penn Township. He was a Friend, and came from Pennsylvania, of which state he was a native, to Muskingum County in 1832. In 1837 he came to Penn Township, and bought the farm on which his daughter, Mrs.
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 Penn Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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 (3), 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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