The story
Read it all →How Harmony Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Harmony Township.
The West Hickory Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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History · Harmony Township
14% of Harmony Township’s homes were built before 1940
Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1927 on, and the census since 2000.
0on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
What stands out about Harmony Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Harmony Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds
Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Perry
Stewarts Run
West Hickory
Trunkeyville
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Dawson RunNeilltownStewart RunTrunkeyvilleWest Hickory
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Harmony Township
FagundasFlemingNeilltownSiggins FamilyStewart RunWest Hickory
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
People over time
Harmony Township, census by census
Peaked at 666 in 2010; 466 people lived here in 2020.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Harmony Township’s Wikipedia page.
Timeline
Harmony Township, 1823 to 2010
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1823Post officeThe Perry post office opens
- 1851Post officeThe Stewarts Run post office opens
- 1866Post officeThe West Hickory post office opens
- 20th century
- 1903Post officeThe Perry post office closes
- 1906Post officeThe Stewarts Run post office closes
- 1927
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey - 21st century
- 2010CensusPopulation peaks at 666
By decade
Harmony Township, decade by decade
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2004On the map
Harmony Township on the map, 1927 to 1997
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Harmony Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1927Tidioute sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Harmony Township.
Then & now
Stand where they stood
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Retake this viewDavid Stauffer Farm Buildings
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Retake this view · +15Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Harmony Township
Nobody well known was born in Harmony Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Hickory Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTionesta TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTriumph TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPresident Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Questions about Harmony 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), the Library of Congress (1), 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.