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History · Buckingham Township

31% of Buckingham Township’s homes were built before 1940

2 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 55 buildings. Below: 6 old photos and papers and maps from 1930 on.

2on the National Register
31%homes built before 1940
6old photos & papers
1famous people
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From Buckingham Township’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Buckingham Township’s past

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

Lost villages5 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Buckingham Township, and 6 old place names are still on the map.A historic districtThe Equinunk Historic District takes in 55 historic buildings.Mystery photos6 old photos have no date. Neighbors can guess the decade.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Stockport
1820–1846
Scott
1829–1854
Equinunk
1846–today
High Lake
1857–1912
Ball's Eddy
1873–1875
Autumn Leaves
1876–1930
Starlight
1886–today
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Autumn LeavesBalls EddyDillontownHigh LakeStarlightStockport
Gone or out of use
Congo SchoolschoolHigh Lake Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Buckingham Township
Kingsbury Hill

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

On the National Register

2 listings protect 56 historic buildings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
56
each building in a district counts
first listed
1999
Equinunk Historic District
Equinunk Historic DistrictStarlight Station, New York, Ontario, and Western Railway
BuildingsDistricts

Architectural styles listings

Greek Revival1
Gothic Revival1
Second Empire1
Mansard1
Queen Anne1
Queen Anne Revival1
Equinunk Historic DistrictGreek Revival
Starlight Station, New York, Ontario, and Western RailwayLate Victorian

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Help out

Start Buckingham Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Buckingham Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo6 archive items have no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewFarm Group, State Route 263 (Buckingham…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Buckingham Township, in brief

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

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 520 to 506 (-3%).

Timeline

Buckingham Township, 1820 to 1930

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1820Post officeThe Stockport post office opens
  3. 1824Born hereEdward M. Paxson is born here
  4. 1829Post officeThe Scott post office opens
  5. 1846Post officeThe Stockport post office closes
  6. 1846Post officeThe Equinunk post office opens
  7. 1854Post officeThe Scott post office closes
  8. 20th century
  9. 1930On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Buckingham Township, decade by decade

Date unknown6 to date
Farm Group, State Route 263 (Buckingham Township)Date?Farm Group, State Route 263 (Buckingham Township)Fell Farm, House, Route 202 & Mechanicsville RoadDate?Fell Farm, House, Route 202 & Mechanicsville RoadFell Farm, Carriage House, Route 202 & Mechanicsville RoadDate?Fell Farm, Carriage House, Route 202 & Mechanicsville…Fell Farm, Spring House, Route 202 & Mechanicsville RoadDate?Fell Farm, Spring House, Route 202 & Mechanicsville R…Fell Farm, Smoke House, Route 202 & Mechanicsville RoadDate?Fell Farm, Smoke House, Route 202 & Mechanicsville Ro…Mount Gilead A.M.E. Church, 1940 Holicong RoadDate?Mount Gilead A.M.E. Church, 1940 Holicong Road
On the map

Buckingham Township on the map in 1930

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Buckingham Township.

Buckingham Township on the 1930 USGS map1930Starrucca sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Buckingham 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.

Farm Group, State Route 263 (Buckingham Township)
Retake this viewFarm Group, State Route 263 (Buckingham Township)

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Buckingham Township’s page.

Retake this view · +15
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Manchester TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townScott TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPreston TownshipIts storyB+Mount Pleasant TownshipIts storyB

Questions about Buckingham Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Buckingham Township?

Two places: the Equinunk Historic District (listed 1999) and the Starlight Station, New York, Ontario, and Western Railway (2001).

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 the Library of Congress (6), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.