The story
Read it all →How Boggs Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Boggs Township.
The Allegheny River Lock and Dam No. 8 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
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History · Boggs Township
16% of Boggs Township’s homes were built before 1940
Below: maps from 1901 on.
0on the National Register
16%homes built before 1940
What stands out about Boggs Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Boggs Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.On the map
Boggs Township on the map, 1901 to 1979
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Boggs Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1901Rural Valley 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 Boggs Township.
Timeline
Boggs Township, 1866 to 1905
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1866Post officeThe Goheenville post office opens
- 20th century
- 1901
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey - 1905Post officeThe Goheenville post office closes
By decade
No old photos in the archives yet
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Add from your albumPlaces that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds
Another post office, Goheenville, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Hamlets and corners on the map
GoheenvilleSlabtown
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Boggs Township
CalhounCochranLower PineyMateerMount ZionRehobeth Reformed Presbyterian Church
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Valley TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRayburn TownshipIts storyB−East Franklin TownshipIts storyCWashington Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWayne TownshipIts storyB−Mahoning Township2 historic placesAPine TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
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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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.