Founding year: Wikidata. First post office: 1828.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Sardinia’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Sardinia is more historic than 60% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Sardinia’s overall grade.
Ohio towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Ohio town has 2.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Sardinia’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±10.1 points). Two sources give 1830.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Sardinia’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Sardinia was laid out in 1833. The village's name is derived from a methodist hymnal popular during the 1840's. Historically, Sardinia was a post village of Brown County, in Washington township, established in 1830, situated on the east fork of White Oak Creek, 12 miles (19 km) north-east of Georgetown, and 44 miles (71 km) east of Cincinnati. In 1860, Sardinia's population was 200 and Washington Township had a population of 1,300. It was a station on the Cincinnati & Eastern Railroad, today the Cincinnati Eastern Railroad (CCET).
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Sardinia soon after his arrival in the Buckeye State, remaining on Red Oak not longer than a year or two. He spent the summers on his land in Washington Township, and was engaged in teaching during the winters, at the points named. This plan he continued until the winter of 1815-16, when he began teaching in what was afterward long known as the Moore Schoolhouse, near the present site of Sardinia, and continued teaching thereat until 1834.
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In May, 1876, it was resolved to extend the line from Williamsburg to Portsmouth. The road was completed as a three-feet gauge road from its junction with the Little Miami Railroad to Batavia, October 18, 1876; to Williamsburg, March 1, 1877; to Mt. Oreb, April 19, 1877; to Sardinia, June 4, 1877; to Winchester, in September, 1877. This was the first railroad running east and west through the central portions of Clermont County, and the first of any kind to reach Brown and Adams Counties.
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The history of Brown County, Ohio, containing a history of the county ... general and local statistics1883 · page 664Read the page →
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direct communication with the outside world in three directions, and in the near future will be added the fourth. The Cincinnati & Eastern Railroad passes through the northern part of Washington, running in an easterly and westerly direction; the Hillsboro & Sardinia road terminates at Sardinia; and the Georgetown & Sardinia Railroad is in process of construction. . EARLY SETTLEMENT.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Sardinia’s post office has been open since 1837. Another post office, Lilly, opened and closed inside today’s town.
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Sardinia’s history
What year was Sardinia founded?
In 1830, according to Wikidata. Sardinia’s post office opened in 1828.
How does Sardinia rank for history?
Sardinia is more historic than 60% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in Sardinia?
19% of Sardinia’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±10.1 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1958.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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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