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History · Farmersville

Farmersville’s post office opened in 1855

Most of Farmersville was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1984. Below: 6 old photos and papers, maps from 1906 on, and old-book passages.

1855first post office
0on the National Register
8%homes built before 1940
6old photos & papers
1famous people
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Quick answers

How Farmersville began

When was Farmersville founded?

1855

The Farmersville post office opened in 1855, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 1,051171 years
Founding year: the first Farmersville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
The story so far

Farmersville, in brief

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

Farmersville is a rural Mennonite settlement and a census-designated place (CDP) in West Earl Township, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 991.

Its first post office opened in 1855. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 991 to 1,051 (+6%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

From the old history books

What they wrote about Farmersville in 1883

Passages that mention Farmersville, cut from the printed page as they were published.

The village of Farmersville is situated on the Lancaster and Hinkletown road. The fir-t hou-e was built in 1843, by Eckert Myers. A post-otEce was established in 1855, at which time the village took its name. Dr. C. F. Groff was appointed postmaster, and served till about ISGO, when S. M. Seldomrid…
History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania1883Read the page →
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The village of Farmersville is situated on the Lancaster and Hinkletown road. The fir-t hou-e was built in 1843, by Eckert Myers. A post-otEce was established in 1855, at which time the village took its name. Dr. C. F. Groff was appointed postmaster, and served till about ISGO, when S. M. Seldomridge, the present postmaster, was appointed.

Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.

Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Timeline

Farmersville, 1906 to 1975

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1906On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  3. 1936In the archiveLloyd Kramer farmhouse. Northampton Farms site. Farmersville, Pennsylvania
  4. 1975Born hereFloyd Landis is born here
By decade

Farmersville, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1930s6 items
Lloyd Kramer farmhouse. Northampton Farms site. Farmersville, Pennsylvania1936Lloyd Kramer farmhouse. Northampton Farms site. Farme…Untitled photo, possibly related to: Lloyd Kramer farm1936Untitled photo, possibly related to: Lloyd Kramer farmUntitled photo, possibly related to: Lloyd Kramer farm1936Untitled photo, possibly related to: Lloyd Kramer farmUntitled photo, possibly related to: Lloyd Kramer farm1936Untitled photo, possibly related to: Lloyd Kramer farmUntitled photo, possibly related to: Lloyd Kramer farm1936Untitled photo, possibly related to: Lloyd Kramer farmUntitled photo, possibly related to: Lloyd Kramer farm1936Untitled photo, possibly related to: Lloyd Kramer farm
1940s–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.
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On the map

Farmersville on the map, 1906 to 1941

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Farmersville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Farmersville on the 1906 USGS mapFarmersville on the 1941 USGS map1906New Holland 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 Farmersville.

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.

Lloyd Kramer farmhouse. Northampton Farms site. Farmersville, Pennsylvania
Retake this viewLloyd Kramer farmhouse. Northampton Farms site. Farmersville, Pennsylvania, 1936

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

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Help out

Finish Farmersville’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewLloyd Kramer farmhouse. Northampton Far…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

Questions about Farmersville’s history

What year was Farmersville founded?

The Farmersville post office opened in 1855, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.