The story
Read it all →How Beaver Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Beaver Township.
The Dreese's Covered Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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History · Beaver Township
19% of Beaver Township’s homes were built before 1940
Its Register listing is the Dreese's Covered Bridge. Below: 4 old photos and papers and maps from 1943 on.
1on the National Register
19%homes built before 1940
4old photos & papers
What stands out about Beaver Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Beaver Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Beaver Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.By decade
Beaver Township, decade by decade
One decade in the archive so far: the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1900s4 items
1905
1906
1906
19061910s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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2024
2024
2024
2024
2012On the map
Beaver Township on the map, 1943 to 1973
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Beaver Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1943Mifflinburg sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Beaver Township.
Then & now
Stand where they stood
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this viewBeaver County Court House, 1905
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Beaver Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15On the National Register
1 historic place in Beaver Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1979
Dreese's Covered Bridge
Structures
Architectural styles listings
Burr Truss1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Beaver Township
Nobody well known was born in Beaver Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Beaver Township’s history
What is on the National Register in Beaver Township?
One place: the Dreese's Covered Bridge (listed 1979).
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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Sources
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 (5), the Library of Congress (4), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia and U.S. Geological Survey historical maps. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.