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History · Union Township

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

Its Register listings are the Adams Covered Bridge and the Rock Hollow School. Below: maps from 1910 on and old-book passages.

2on the National Register
24%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Union 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 Union Township, and 5 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Union Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19104 editions of the USGS map, 1910 to 1994. Watch Union Township change.
★ 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.

Morgan
1819–1825
Wolf Creek
1825–1860
Morgansville
1844–1908
Shilling
1897–1905
18101920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
MorganvilleRinggoldRosseauShillingVicksville
Gone or out of use
Maple Grove SchoolschoolMorgansville Post Officepost officeRinggold SchoolschoolRock Hollow SchoolschoolRosseau Post Officepost officeShilling Post Officepost office
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Union Township
East BranchFairviewPisgah Methodist ProtestantRinggoldWolf Creek

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

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Start Union Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Union Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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On the map

Union Township on the map, 1910 to 1994

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

Union Township on the 1910 USGS mapUnion Township on the 1961 USGS mapUnion Township on the 1975 USGS mapUnion Township on the 1994 USGS map1910Mc Connelsville sheet · 1:62,500

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

The story so far

Union Township, in brief

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

Union Township is one of the fourteen townships of Morgan County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census counted 638 people in the township.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 614 to 638 (+4%).

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

From the old history books

What they wrote about Union Township in 1886

Passages that mention Union Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.

the store of Francis A. Barker in Malta, where he acted as clerk for a year and a half. In the fall of 1831 he rented a tannery in Union Township, which lie purchased in the following year and conducted until 1837. Soon after going to Union Township he taught a winter school of sixty scholars.
History of Morgan County, Ohio1886 · page 354Read the page →
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the store of Francis A. Barker in Malta, where he acted as clerk for a year and a half. In the fall of 1831 he rented a tannery in Union Township, which lie purchased in the following year and conducted until 1837. Soon after going to Union Township he taught a winter school of sixty scholars.

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.

Timeline

Union Township, 1819 to 1910

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1819Post officeThe Morgan post office opens
  3. 1825Post officeThe Morgan post office closes
  4. 1825Post officeThe Wolf Creek post office opens
  5. 1844Post officeThe Morgansville post office opens
  6. 1860Post officeThe Wolf Creek post office closes
  7. 20th century
  8. 1908Post officeThe Morgansville post office closes
  9. 1910On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Union Township, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Map of Morgan County Ohio Highlighting2015Map of Morgan County Ohio HighlightingMapWestward into Ringgold2013Westward into Ringgold
On the National Register

2 historic places in Union Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1983
Rock Hollow School
Adams Covered BridgeRock Hollow School
BuildingsStructures
Adams Covered BridgeStructure
All 2 listings
Rock Hollow SchoolBuilding · listed 1983

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Penn TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHomer TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMonroe TownshipIts storyBDeerfield Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMalta TownshipIts storyB

Questions about Union Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Union Township?

Two places: the Adams Covered Bridge (listed 1999) and the Rock Hollow School (1983).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.