Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Greene Academy. Below: 1 old photo or paper from 1970 on.
Carmichaels dates its founding to 1768 (Wikidata). Its post office opened in 1822.
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 Carmichaels’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Carmichaels.
The Carmichaels Covered Bridge and Greene Academy are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Carmichaels, Pennsylvania is quite famous in its area for the Coal Queen Pageant, an annual beauty pageant where girls from all over Greene County compete to be crowned Coal Queen.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereThomas S. Crago is born here
In the archiveGREENE ACADEMYOne decade in the archive so far: the 1970s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Carmichaels’ page.
Retake this view · +15The 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.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1768, according to Wikidata. Carmichaels’ post office opened in 1822.
One place: the Greene Academy (listed 1976).
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 (1), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.
