Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: old-book passages.
The Phillipsburg post office opened in 1903, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Center (1848), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Phillipsburg’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Phillipsburg.
Phillipsburg was platted in 1836, and named for Philip Studybaker, a member of the town company. A post office was established as Centre in 1848, the name was changed to Center in 1893, and changed again to Phillipsburg in 1903. Phillipsburg was incorporated as a village in 1899.
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Passages that mention Phillipsburg, cut from the printed page as they were published.
;e interest of the money expended in the Construction of the houses, makes it t less than $8.50 to each scholar per annum; the maximum wages of teachers $3.25, and the minimum $1.25 per day. The first “meeting house” built in 13 township was erected in the vicinity of the present village of Phillipsburg ! the Society of Friends; however, this was not until, comparatively speaking, ' ate day, in 1828. Prior to this, all denominations worshiped either in the neting-houses of the neighboring townships or in schoolhouses, each other’s (bins or barns, and in the summer in the woods. Among the early families
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remained at home for a year, when he attended the Normal School at Troy, Miami Co., Ohio. The subsequent winter he taught the schools at Pattysville, Miami County; the next winter he taught a school north of Georgetown, where he commenced the study of medicine with his brother-in-law, Dr. Bobbs, of Phillipsburg, In the winter of 1861-62, he taught the Phillipsburg schools again. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company E, Sixty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His regiment served in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Army Corps. He was in active service some fourteen months, when, by order of Secretary Stanton, he was detached from active service and
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 Phillipsburg itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Phillipsburg’s post office has been open since 1903. Another post office, Center, 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).
The Phillipsburg post office opened in 1903, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 →
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