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Photo: Ben Schumin · CC BY-SA 2.5More historic than 80% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Feltons Mill Covered Bridge and the Jacksons Mill Covered Bridge. Below: maps from 1968 on and the census since 2000.
East Providence Township dates its founding to 1780 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 2000.
More historic than 80% 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 Providence Township is more historic than 80% of U.S. towns. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its age ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
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 Providence Township’s 12.1 sits above most of its state (79% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). 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.
Four 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 Providence Township’s history is told.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereSamuel Walker McCall is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of East Providence Township.
The Feltons Mill Covered Bridge and Jacksons Mill Covered Bridge were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
2024Gapsville, PA, Aug. 2024
2023Abandoned PA TPK WB between Rays Hill Tunnel and Bree…
2023Abandoned PA TPK EB at Rays Hill Tunnel
2019Abandoned PA Turnpike 2019 (5)
2019Abandoned PA Turnpike 2019 (4)
2019Abandoned PA Turnpike 2019 (3)
2019Abandoned PA Turnpike 2019 (2)
2017Breezewood Exit
2015Cedar Grove Lutheran Church, 1878
2011Gapsville Pennsylvania
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20081670 - E Providence Twp - US30 WBEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of East Providence 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 Providence Township.
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.
Between 1,756 and 1,858 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on East Providence Township’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1780, according to Wikidata. East Providence Township’s post office opened in 1828, and the census of 2000 counted 1,858 people here.
East Providence Township is more historic than 80% 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.
Two places: the Feltons Mill Covered Bridge (listed 1980) and the Jacksons Mill Covered Bridge (1980).
16% of East Providence Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.3 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1981.
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 (14), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.
