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History · Perry Township

24% of Perry Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Foreaker Bridge. Below: maps from 1960 on.

1on the National Register
24%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Perry 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 Perry Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Perry Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ 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.

Aitch
1866–1915
Greenbrier
1867–1911
Alexis
1891–1907
Plainview
1903–1904
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AlexisGreenbrierMechanicsburgPlainview
Gone or out of use
Alexis Post Officepost officePlainview Post Officepost office
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Perry Township
BeardmoreGreenbrierHaythornLentzPlainviewUnity Baptist

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 Perry Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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The story so far

Perry Township, in brief

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

Perry Township is one of the eighteen townships of Monroe County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 420, including 71 people in the village of Antioch.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 451 to 420 (-7%).

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

Timeline

Perry Township, 1866 to 1960

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1866Post officeThe Aitch post office opens
  3. 1867Post officeThe Greenbrier post office opens
  4. 1891Post officeThe Alexis post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1907Post officeThe Alexis post office closes
  7. 1911Post officeThe Greenbrier post office closes
  8. 1915Post officeThe Aitch post office closes
  9. 1960On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Perry Township, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Map of Monroe County Ohio Highlighting Perry Township2015Map of Monroe County Ohio Highlighting Perry TownshipMapLittle Muskingum River bridge at Mechanicsburg2014Little Muskingum River bridge at Mechanicsburg
On the map

Perry Township on the map, 1960 to 2002

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Perry Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Perry Township on the 1960 USGS mapPerry Township on the 1972 USGS mapPerry Township on the 1994 USGS mapPerry Township on the 2002 USGS map1960Antioch sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Perry Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Perry 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
1975
Foreaker Bridge
Foreaker Bridge
Structures
Foreaker BridgeStructure

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Perry Township

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

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John MurthaAmerican politician from the U.S. state of Penn… · b. 1932
Bill BollingAmerican politician · b. 1957
John F. LaceyUnion Army officer · b. 1841
Charles DorrAmerican politician · b. 1852
Mark FunkhouserAmerican mayor · b. 1949
William Gladstone SteelCrater Lake promoter and mail carrier · b. 1854
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Green TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBenton TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townJackson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWayne TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Perry Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Perry Township?

One place: the Foreaker Bridge (listed 1975).

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 (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.