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History · Brooklyn Township

Brooklyn Township’s post office opened in 1830, and 31% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Brooklyn Township began

When was Brooklyn Township founded?

1830

The Brooklyn Township post office opened in 1830, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Alford (1877) and Lindaville (1893), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 787196 years
Founding year: the first Brooklyn Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Brooklyn Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Brooklyn Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Brooklyn Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1830: 196 years of Brooklyn Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Brooklyn Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Brooklyn
1830–today
Alford
1877–1944
Lindaville
1893–1907
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AlfordBrooklynLindaville
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Brooklyn Township
DennisLathrop - SquierNewton Hill

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Timeline

Brooklyn Township, 1830 to 1944

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1830Post officeThe Brooklyn post office opens
  3. 1877Post officeThe Alford post office opens
  4. 1893Post officeThe Lindaville post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1907Post officeThe Lindaville post office closes
  7. 1944Post officeThe Alford post office closes
The story so far

Brooklyn Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Brooklyn Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Brooklyn is an unincorporated community in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located along Pennsylvania Route 167, 3.8 miles (6.1 km) northwest of Hop Bottom. Brooklyn has a post office with ZIP code 18813, which opened on March 20, 1830.

Its first post office opened in 1830. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 963 to 787 (-18%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

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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Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Harford TownshipIts storyB+Lenox TownshipIts storyBBridgewater TownshipIts storyB−Lathrop TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNew Milford TownshipIts storyC+Dimock TownshipIts storyB

Questions about Brooklyn Township’s history

What year was Brooklyn Township founded?

The Brooklyn Township post office opened in 1830, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 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.