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History · Granville Township

Granville Township’s post office opened in 1831, and 28% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1943 on.

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Quick answers

How Granville Township began

When was Granville Township founded?

1831

The Granville Township post office opened in 1831, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Granville (1831), Granville Centre (1865) and Windfall (1889), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 899195 years
Founding year: the first Granville Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Granville 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 Granville Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Granville Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1831: 195 years of Granville Township.
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Start Granville Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

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

Granville
1831–1865
Granville Summit
1856–today
Granville Centre
1865–1919
Windfall
1889–1904
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Granville CenterGranville SummitWindfall
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Granville Township
Granville CenterWindfall

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

Timeline

Granville Township, 1831 to 1943

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1831Post officeThe Granville post office opens
  3. 1856Post officeThe Granville Summit post office opens
  4. 1865Post officeThe Granville post office closes
  5. 1865Post officeThe Granville Centre post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1919Post officeThe Granville Centre post office closes
  8. 1943On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Granville Township, in brief

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

Granville Township is a township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 896 at the 2020 census. Children residing in the township are assigned to attend the Troy Area School District.

Its first post office opened in 1831. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 950 to 899 (-5%).

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

By decade

Granville Township, decade by decade

Today4 recent
2021-09-17 14 05 32 View east along Pennsylvania State Route 514 (Granville Road) just east of Bailey Corners Road in G…20212021-09-17 14 05 32 View east along Pennsylvania Stat…Flickr - Nicholas T - Farming Valley (2)2012Flickr - Nicholas T - Farming Valley (2)Flickr - Nicholas T - Country Road2012Flickr - Nicholas T - Country RoadFarming Valley (1)2012Farming Valley (1)
On the map

Granville Township on the map, 1943 to 1969

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

Granville Township on the 1943 USGS mapGranville Township on the 1969 USGS map1943Powell 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 Granville Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

West Burlington Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTroy TownshipIts storyBLeroy TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFranklin TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Granville Township’s history

What year was Granville Township founded?

The Granville Township post office opened in 1831, 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 Wikimedia Commons (4), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.