Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 74% of U.S. towns · #428 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
4 places in town are on the National Register. Below: maps from 1902 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 74% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Antrim Township is more historic than 74% of U.S. towns, #428 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
Pennsylvania towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Pennsylvania town has 2.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Antrim Township’s 8.7 sits above most of its state (75% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 14 historic buildings outnumber those of 78% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: our sources. 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 →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Seven 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).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Antrim Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Antrim Township. 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 Antrim Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Antrim Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 14,893 to 15,778 (+6%).
Passages that mention Antrim Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The Kennedy Settlement in Antrim Township was made between the years 1755 and 1760. John Kennedy, a native of Lancaster County, came to the confluence of the East and the West Conococheague, in the southwest part of Antrim Township, and located on 700 acres of land, the first tract being bottom land extending a mile and a half in length along the creeks. Contrary to the general principle that the early settlers locate on the uplands, and hence on the poorest land, he chose the lowland because of the superior fishing qualities it possessed. This tract he obtained from an old Indian chief,
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The Kennedy Settlement in Antrim Township was made between the years 1755 and 1760. John Kennedy, a native of Lancaster County, came to the confluence of the East and the West Conococheague, in the southwest part of Antrim Township, and located on 700 acres of land, the first tract being bottom land extending a mile and a half in length along the creeks. Contrary to the general principle that the early settlers locate on the uplands, and hence on the poorest land, he chose the lowland because of the superior fishing qualities it possessed. This tract he obtained from an old Indian chief,
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An attempt to establish Mormonism, in Antrim Township, was made in 1845-17, but failed. The particulars are given in the History of Antrim Township.
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George C. Wilson, he established the Greencastle Press, and has since been its proprietor, attending at the same time to his large law practice and other business, The new postoffice, established in 1883, in Antrim Township, is called Wingerton, deriving its name from this family. The origin of the name Winger was from the locality in whieh they originally lived, in the immediate mountainous vieinity of the ‘‘Wengern Alps’’ in the Canton of Zurich (this is one of the highest ranges of the Alps in Switzerland), thus Wengern anglicized,to Winger.
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.
Born hereFritz Coumbe is born here
Born hereWilliam K. MacNulty is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Antrim Township is more historic than 74% of U.S. towns, #428 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. 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.
4 listings: 3 buildings, among them the Old Brown's Mill School (listed 1973, the first), and 1 structure. 14 historic buildings in all.
12% of Antrim Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.0 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1985.
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).
From the National Register of Historic Places (4), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.
