Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
1 place in town is on the National Register. Below: old-book passages.
The Blandon post office opened in 1862, the earliest record of the town by name.
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 Blandon’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Blandon.
A post office called Blandon has been in operation since 1862. Sources differ whether the community was named for H. Willis Bland, a county judge, or for Robert Bland, an original owner of the town site.
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Passages that mention Blandon, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Blandon is the only town in the township. It is situated near the base of the mountain, in the eastern section, and on the East Penn Railroad. A station of the same name is on the railway, with a neat passenger depot and all the conveniences in sidings for freight shipments. The town contains two churches, several stores and hotels, a rolling-mill and several
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D. B. Brunner, subsequently teaching in Pike and Richmond townships, Berks county, for two years. He then learned telegraphy from William Schantz, of Blandon, Pa., and was appointed station agent at Reinholds Station, Lancaster county, where he remained for a period of thirteen years. During the latter year of his service with this company he was also engaged in the mercantile business at Reinholds, but in 1887 removed his business to
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Blandon Rolling Mill was built in Maidencreek along the East Penn railroad in 1867. It has been successfully operated since 1892 by Simon Seyfert. Annual product, 33,000 tons; hands employed, 335.
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Blandon Iron- Works, at Blandon, owned by Maidencreek Iron Company. Built in 1867; 11 single puddling furnaces, 2 heating furnaces and 3 trains of rolls; product, round, square, flat, hoop, band and skelp-iron ; annual capacity, 8000 net tons.
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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.
Nobody well known was born in Blandon itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Blandon post office opened in 1862, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 (4), Wikipedia 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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