The story
Read it all →How Dublin Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Dublin Township.
The Shade Gap Feed and Flour Mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Dublin Township
26% of Dublin Township’s homes were built before 1940
More historic than 84% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Shade Gap Feed and Flour Mill. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1939 on, and the census since 2000.
1on the National Register
26%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
Quick answers
About Dublin Township’s history
How historic is Dublin Township?
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What drives the grade ↓More historic than 84% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
History grade
What drives Dublin Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Dublin Township is more historic than 84% of U.S. towns. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Dublin Township’s overall grade.
Founding eraWithout a firm founding date for Dublin Township, this grade rests on its old homes and Register listings–Homes built before 194026.4% of homes (±9.3) · typical PA town 17.7% · U.S. 8.4%A−National Register1 listing, 8.5 per 10,000 residents · typical PA town 2.1 · U.S. 2.4B
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 84%
NewerOlder
Pennsylvania towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Pennsylvania town has 2.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Dublin Township’s 8.5 sits above most of its state (75% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±9.3 points).
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Dublin Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out
Start Dublin Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dublin Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Shade Gap
Decorum
Neelyton
Mentzer
Clair
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
DecorumMentzerNeelyton
Gone or out of use
Burnt Cabins Emergency StripairportCenter Schoolschool
8cemeteries and burying grounds inside Dublin Township
BlairCreeFair Ridge ChurchFlemingPine Grove Presbyterian ChurchPleasant HillPossumtownShade Gap Presbyterian Church
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Timeline
Dublin Township, 1824 to 1980
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1824Post officeThe Shade Gap post office opens
- 1884Post officeThe Decorum post office opens
- 1886Post officeThe Neelyton post office opens
- 20th century
- 1934Post officeThe Decorum post office closes
- 1939
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey - 1980
In the archiveGreen Hills Farm, the Bucks County home of Nobel and Pulitizer Prize-winning author Pearl…
By decade
Dublin Township, decade by decade
One decade in the archive so far: the 1980s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your albumDate unknown1 to date
Date?Today17 recent
2024US 522 sb in Dublin Twp., PA (1), May 2024
2024US 522 sb approaching PA 641, May 2024
2024US 522 nb in Dublin Township, PA, May 2024
2024US 522 nb entering Cromwell Twp. from Dublin Twp., Ma…
2024Main Street sb entering Shade Gap, PA, May 2024
2024Main Street nb in Dublin Twp., Huntindgon Co., PA (3)…
2024Main Street nb in Dublin Twp., Huntindgon Co., PA (2)…
2024Main Street nb in Dublin Twp., Huntindgon Co., PA (1)…
2024Main Street nb entering Shade Gap, PA, May 2024
2024Dublin Township, Huntingdon County, PA municipal buil…
20212021-10-27 15 30 11 View east along Pennsylvania Stat…
2018US 522 in Dublin Township
2016Shade Gap PA Presby
2016Shade Gap PA Elementary School
2009Shade Gap Post Office
2008US Route 522 - Pennsylvania
2008Map of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania Highlighting D…MapOn the map
Dublin Township on the map, 1939 to 1973
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Dublin Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1939Orbisonia 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 Dublin 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.
Retake this viewGreen Hills Farm, the Bucks County home of Nobel and Pulitizer Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck, 1980
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Dublin Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15On the National Register
1 historic place in Dublin Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1990
Shade Gap Feed and Flour Mill
Buildings
Architectural styles listings
Grist Mill1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
People over time
Dublin Township, census by census
Between 1,182 and 1,290 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Dublin Township’s Wikipedia page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Dublin Township
Nobody well known was born in Dublin Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Dublin Township’s history
How does Dublin Township rank for history?
Dublin Township is more historic than 84% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Dublin Township?
One place: the Shade Gap Feed and Flour Mill (listed 1990).
How old are the homes in Dublin Township?
26% of Dublin Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±9.3 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1972.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (17), the Library of Congress (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.