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 Tully Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Tully Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 854 to 834 (-2%).
Passages that mention Tully Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Ohio Central Railroad. — The "Atlantic &Lake Erie Railway Company" was incorporated in 1869. to build a road from Toledo to Pomei'oy, passing through Tully Township, this county. In 1879, the name was changed to " Ohio Central Railroad," and June 23, 1881. being consolidated with other lines, it was still further changed to the " Richmond, Allegheny & Ohio Central." This line is now in operation, running through Tully Township, this county, crossing the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio and Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroads at Three Locusts.
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Ohio Central Railroad.—The “Atlantic & Lake Erie Railway Company” was incorporated in 1869, to build a road from Toledo to Pomeroy, passing through Tully Township, this county. In 1879, the name was changed to * Ohio Central Railroad,” and June 23, 1881, being consolidated with other lines, it was still further changed to the “ Richmond, Allegheny & Ohio Central.” This line is nowin operation, running through Tully Township, this county, crossing the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio and Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroads at Three Locusts.
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This town came into existence soon after the Indianapolis Division of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad was built, which division passes through Tully Township, angling from the northeast to the southwest corner. The place was at first a mere station, containing a post office and a few houses; but more recently it has assumed greater proportions, until now, lying as it does at the junction of three railroads —the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis, the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio and the Ohio Central—it promises soon to become
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Tully Township was so named at its organization at the suggestion of Alanson Packard, in honor of a township of that name in New York State, whence be had so recently come.
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.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Another post office, Three Locusts, 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).
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 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.