Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1914 on, and the census since 1870.
Tarlton dates its founding to 1801 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1870.
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 Tarlton’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Tarlton. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Tarlton.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereWilliam Sooy Smith is born here
Born hereArchibald Lybrand is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of Tarlton.
Tarlton was originally called Newellstown, and under the latter name was laid out in 1801.
The Cross Mound is nearby, which was built by the pre-Columbian Mound Builders.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Tarlton, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Tarlton set up the first post office in 1812, and it sill has a post office in the store, Tarlton Market. The settlements of Stringtown and Whisler also had post offices. Today, there are no stores or post offices in either location.
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braced 20 appointments in Pickaway, Vinton, Ross, Fairfield and Hocking counties. In 1841 Tarlton Circuit was formed from Adelphi with seven appointments, of which the Tarlton church and Haller‘s Chapel were the only ones in Pickaway County. In 1870 South Perry Circuit was detached from Tarlton, leaving the latter with four appointments: Tarlton, in
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The Morris United Brethren Church was organized in 1842 on Tarlton Road on the south end of the township and the Bethany United Brethren Church was established in 1838 or 1839. The Bethany Church was built in 1874 near the junction of Stout and Ringgold Southern Roads. Each of these churches established cemeteries which remain today.
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a carding machine put in in 1834. All these were run by water power. In 1810 of 1811, Abraham Barnet erected a sawmill on Salt Creek at Tarlton, It was run as a sawmill until 1815, in which year the property was purchased by George Wolf, who made extensive improvements and also built a flouring mill.
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.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Tarlton’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 254 and 448 people in every census since 1870.
16 censuses, 1870–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Tarlton’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
In 1801, according to Wikidata. Tarlton’s post office opened in 1808, and the census of 1870 counted 407 people here.
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 (8), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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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