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Corker Hill · Photo: Smallbones · CC0More historic than 61% of U.S. towns · #591 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
Its Register listings are the James Finley House, the Culbertson-Harbison Farm and the Corker Hill. Most of Greene Township was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1987. Below: maps from 1902 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 61% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Greene Township is more historic than 61% of U.S. towns, #591 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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 Greene Township’s 7.0 sits above most of its state (72% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 13 historic buildings outnumber those of 77% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: our sources. 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.
Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Air Hill Cemetery · Brinzer - Brainer Cemetery · Brownsville Church of God Church Cemetery · Chambersburg Mennonite Cemetery · Covenanter Cemetery · Covenanter Cemetery · Culbertson Mennonite Church Cemetery · Green Village United Methodist Cemetery · Greenvillage Lutheran Cemetery · Mentzers Graveyard · Mount Pleasant Cemetery · Mount Union United Methodist Church Cemetery · Mountain Green Cemetery · Norland Cemetery · Parklawns Memorial Gardens · Saint Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery · Salem United Brethren Church Cemetery · Scotland United Methodist Church Cemetery · Shirk's Mennonite Cemetery · Union Cemetery · Witwer Farm Graveyard
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 Greene Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Greene 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 Greene Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Greene Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 16,700 to 18,436 (+10%).
Passages that mention Greene Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
years. The ministers of the church, near Chambersburg, have been Daniel Lehman, of Greene Township, was many years a minister, died about 1850; Peter Lehman of Greene Township, died about 1836 or 1837; David Horst, of Greene Township, several years a minister, died in 1857 ; Philip H. Parret, of Greene Township, perhaps twelve or fifteen years, still serves; Samuel D. Lehman was installed a little over a year ago. Those of the Row Church co agregation have been Joseph Bomberger, of near Middlespring, served m my years, died nearly twenty years ago; Peter Wedel succeeded him soon after
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influx was between 1790 and 1800. For many years they had no churches, but so arranged their dwellings that they held services in them by turns, and it was about 1810, or soon after, when they erected a church, about one mile north east of Chambersburg, in Greene Township, where the brick church now stands, and a small log church in Letterkenny Township, about two and one-quarter miles south of Strasburg. The present structure, built in 1859, is about a mile and a half farther south than the old one. The church near Brown's Mill was erected years ago. It was discontinued and a new one built, in 1867,
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Greene Township is more historic than 61% of U.S. towns, #591 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. 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.
Three places: the James Finley House (listed 1974), the Culbertson-Harbison Farm (1980) and the Corker Hill (2003).
7% of Greene Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.7 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1987.
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 the National Register of Historic Places (3), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System 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.
