The story
Read it all →How Hickory Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Hickory Township.
The West Hickory Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Hickory Township
12% of Hickory Township’s homes were built before 1940
Its Register listing is the West Hickory Bridge. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1927 on, and the census since 2000.
1on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
What stands out about Hickory Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Hickory Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hickory 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, places now gone and burying grounds
Another post office, East Hickory, opened and closed inside today’s town.
East Hickory
Endeavor
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Church HillEast HickoryEndeavorLittle HickoryQueenYellow Hammer
Gone or out of use
Beaver Valley Schoolschool
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Hickory Township
Church HillKiffer HillMethodist Church East HickoryPrather FamilyRiverside East Hickory
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Timeline
Hickory Township, 1866 to 2007
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1866
In the archiveOil region of Venango County, Pennsylvania - 1867Post officeThe East Hickory post office opens
- 1897Post officeThe Endeavor post office opens
- 20th century
- 1927
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey - 1986Post officeThe East Hickory post office closes
- 21st century
- 2007
BuiltWest Hickory Bridge is built
By decade
Hickory Township, decade by decade
One decade in the archive so far: the 1860s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2022
2014
2014
2014
2014
2008
2004
2004On the map
Hickory Township on the map, 1927 to 1973
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hickory 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 Hickory 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.
Retake this viewOil region of Venango County, Pennsylvania, 1866
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Hickory Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15On the National Register
1 historic place in Hickory Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1988
West Hickory Bridge
Structures
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
People over time
Hickory Township, census by census
Between 416 and 558 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Hickory Township’s Wikipedia page.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Harmony TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townKingsley TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGreen TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLimestone TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTionesta TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Questions about Hickory Township’s history
What is on the National Register in Hickory Township?
One place: the West Hickory Bridge (listed 1988).
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Start a conversation
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 (9), the National Register of Historic Places (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.