Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Dr. A. C. Lewis House. Below: 1 old photo or paper from 1924 on and old-book passages.
The Winchester post office opened in 1819, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Scott (1821) and South Winchester (1854), 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 Winchester’s history is told.
Winchester’s post office has been open since 1819. Two other post offices 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).
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveM. E. Church, Winchester, OhioWikipedia doesn’t have a history of Winchester yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Its first post office opened in 1819. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,051 to 987 (-6%).
Passages that mention Winchester, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The churches in the township are Calvary M. P. Chttrch in the Kennedy neighborhood in the northeast part of the township, and Centenary M. E. Church about three miles north of the village of Winchester. In the village of Winchester, Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Baptist organizations are maintained. Of these latter the M. E. Church was organized in 1830 and the Baptist in 183 1. In 1887 the Presbyterians erected a very handsome frame church at «a cost of five thousand dollars. The Baptist organization was formed at the house of
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The first bridge across the canal in Winchester was built on wooden abutments with trestle approaches, and was located on High street, and about the same time another one of similar construction was built at the east line of town, but being little used was never rebuilt. In about 1840 stone abutments with earth approaches were constructed, and a covered bridge with double driveways was erected ; this bridge stood until
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About the same time Lewis (Ludwig) Kramer built a grist and saw-mill on Little Walnut creek about one mile southwest of Winchester. In 1852 it was operated by Henry Fictone, then by Geo. Fisher, in 1858 by Fisher & (Geo.) Markley, in 1859 by Fisher & (Ervin) Moore, in 186 1 by Moore & (Geo.) Bareis. Soon after this the dam gave way and the mill was abandoned. This building stood until about 1893 when it
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Nioholas Bnrwell was bom near Winchester, Virginia, September 11, 1794. He learned the shoemaker's trade as a youth at Winchester, and while residing there was in the War of 1812. In 1815, he and Murtaugh Kehoe, also a young shoemaker, came to the West from Winchester, Virginia. They floated down the Ohio River and landed at Portsmouth, Ohio. Kehoe was favorably impressed with the place and resolved to remain and did so.
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.
One decade in the archive so far: the 1920s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
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 Winchester’s page.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Winchester itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Winchester post office opened in 1819, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Dr. A. C. Lewis House (listed 1980).
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 (6), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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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