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More historic than 77% of U.S. towns · #373 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
Most of East Fallowfield Township was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1999. Below: 4 old photos and papers, maps from 1904 on, and the census since 1930.
More historic than 77% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, East Fallowfield Township is more historic than 77% of U.S. towns, #373 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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 East Fallowfield Township’s 94.6 sits above most of its state (88% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 74 historic buildings outnumber those of 87% of U.S. towns.
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 →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The 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.
Nine other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how East Fallowfield Township’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of East Fallowfield Township.
East Fallowfield is said to be named for Lancelot Fallowfield, one of the first purchasers of land from William Penn.
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.
In the archive1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Pennsylvania - Chester County - East Fallowfield …
BuiltAsa Walton House is built
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveDeath certificate of Edgar Rice, Pennsylvania 1911
In the archiveFRONT and SIDE ELEVATIONS, SOUTH TO NORTH - Lukens Pierce House, Wilmington Road (East Fa…3 decades in the archive, from the 1880s to the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2015Doe Run Presby E Fallowfield Twp PA
2013The Big Apple, E Fallowfield, ChesterCo PA
2013Philip Dougherty Tavern 01
2012Speakman No 2 Mary Ann Pyle Bridge
2012John Bailey Farm
2011White Horse Strasburg Chesco
2010Phil Dougherty House
2010Drovers Inn
2010Dougherty
2010Brandywine Row Houses
2010Barn with Hex
2010Asa Walton House
2009Joshua Pusey HouseEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of East Fallowfield Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of East Fallowfield Township.
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 East Fallowfield Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Grew from 1,406 people in 1930 to 7,625 in 2020, 5 times over.
10 censuses, 1930–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on East Fallowfield Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in East Fallowfield Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
East Fallowfield Township is more historic than 77% of U.S. towns, #373 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. 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.
31 listings: 27 buildings, among them the Lukens Pierce House (listed 1973, the first), 2 historic districts, the Ercildoun Historic District and the Glen Rose Historic District, with 31 contributing buildings, and 2 structures. 74 historic buildings in all.
9% of East Fallowfield Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.4 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1999.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (17), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (31), 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.
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