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History · Grant Township

29% of Grant Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1906 on and the census since 1870.

0on the National Register
29%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Grant 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 writtenNo old photos of Grant Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Grant Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.Boom and bustPeaked at 1,350 in 1890; 639 people lived here in 2020.On the map since 19066 editions of the USGS map, 1906 to 1981. Watch Grant Township change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Grant Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Deckers Point
1856–1907
Rochester Mills
1871–today
Eastrun
1898–1907
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Deckers PointEast RunNashvilleRochester Mills
Gone or out of use
Hartman Schoolschool
7cemeteries and burying grounds inside Grant Township
BestEast MahoningFairviewMontgomeryOaklandPine ValeShilo

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

People over time

Grant Township, census by census

02004006008001,0001,2001,40018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 1,350

Peaked at 1,350 in 1890; 639 people lived here in 2020.

16 censuses, 1870–2020.

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

The story

How Grant Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Grant Township.

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Grant Township was formed when the eastern half of the original Mahoning Township was divided in 1868 and named after President Ulysses S. Grant. The township includes the unincorporated communities of Bald Ridge, Decker's Point (previously called Colfax), Doty's Round Top, East Run, Kinter Hill, Nashville, and Rochester Mills (previously called Richmond).

During the 1920s, the countryside of Grant Township was one of the few in Pennsylvania to have a woman, Grace Barr, appointed as a Rural Free Delivery carrier, delivering mail from the Rochester Mills Post Office.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Grant Township, 1856 to 1907

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1856Post officeThe Deckers Point post office opens
  3. 1871Post officeThe Rochester Mills post office opens
  4. 1890CensusPopulation peaks at 1,350
  5. 1898Post officeThe Eastrun post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1906On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 1907Post officeThe Deckers Point post office closes
  9. 1907Post officeThe Eastrun post office closes
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On the map

Grant Township on the map, 1906 to 1981

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

Grant Township on the 1906 USGS mapGrant Township on the 1939 USGS mapGrant Township on the 1942 USGS mapGrant Township on the 1968 USGS mapGrant Township on the 1973 USGS mapGrant Township on the 1981 USGS map1906Punxsutawney 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 Grant Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Canoe TownshipIts storyB+Green Township1 historic placeA+Montgomery TownshipIts storyB−East Mahoning TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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 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.