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History · Freeport Township

30% of Freeport Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1949 on, and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
30%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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From Freeport Township’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Freeport Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Freeport Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Freeport Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewNew Freeport Cornet Band New: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Freeport Township, in brief

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

Freeport Township is a township in Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 269 at the 2020 census. In June 2025 the township's Board of Supervisors declared a "disaster emergency" which allows it to seek state and federal funds to install a water system after residents complained that their water had been contaminated for over three years, believed to be caused by fracking. Neighboring Springhill Township followed with a similar declaration in August 2025.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 310 to 269 (-13%).

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

Timeline

Freeport Township, 1853 to 1968

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1853Post officeThe New Freeport post office opens
  3. 1887Post officeThe Garrison post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1900In the archiveNew Freeport Cornet Band New
  6. 1949On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1968Post officeThe Garrison post office closes
By decade

Freeport Township, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1900s1 item
New Freeport Cornet Band Newc. 1900New Freeport Cornet Band New
1910s–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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Today3 recent
Post Office, New2015Post Office, NewNew Freeport Volunteer Fire Company, Freeport Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania 22015New Freeport Volunteer Fire Company, Freeport Townshi…New Freeport Volunteer Fire Company, Freeport Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania 12015New Freeport Volunteer Fire Company, Freeport Townshi…
On the map

Freeport Township on the map, 1949 to 1984

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

Freeport Township on the 1949 USGS mapFreeport Township on the 1956 USGS mapFreeport Township on the 1961 USGS mapFreeport Township on the 1984 USGS map1949Clarksburg sheet · 1:250,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Freeport 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.

New Freeport Cornet Band New
Retake this viewNew Freeport Cornet Band New, c. 1900

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

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People over time

Freeport Township, census by census

010020030020002020Peak: 310

Between 269 and 310 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Freeport Township’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Freeport Township

Nobody well known was born in Freeport Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Joe ManchinAmerican politician and businessman · b. 1947
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Coleman ScottOlympic wrestler · b. 1986
Arthur I. BoremanAmerican politician · b. 1823
Sam HuffAmerican football player · b. 1934
Josh KoscheckAmerican mixed martial artist · b. 1977
Bill GeorgeAmerican football player · b. 1929
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Another post office, Garrison, opened and closed inside today’s town.

New Freeport
1853–today
Garrison
1887–1968
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
GarrisonNew Freeport
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Freeport Township
GrandviewNew Freeport

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Springhill Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGilmore TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townJackson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNew FreeportIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Freeport Township’s history

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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 Wikimedia Commons (4), 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.