Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1907 on and old-book passages.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Howe Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Howe 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 Howe Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Howe Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Howe Township is a township in Perry County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 376 at the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 393 to 379 (-4%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Howe Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
ble. ‘he original road led from Greenwood ‘Township, over the turnpike across the hill, and by Red Hill Church, to Newport. An act of the legislature was passed March 21, 1865, authorizing the county commissioners to pay $500 to aid Howe Township in making a road recently laid out, from the east end of the Newport bridge to a point on the Harrisburg and Millerstown turnpike, at the foot of Buffalo Mountain. Another act, dated March 20, 1869, authorized the county to pay $2,000 more towards the same road and to
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Howe Township was the last of the townships to be formed in Perry County, being made such in 1861. It is also one of the smallest townships in the county, its territory comprising less than ten square miles. It was originally a part of Greenwood Township, and when Buffalo Township was formed in 1799, it became a part. Then, in 1837, when Oliver was created it became a part of Oliver, where it remained until attaining the distinction of a separate township. In 1860 petitions were circulated asking that that part of Oliver Township lying east of the Juniata River be
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Howe Township is bounded on the north by Greenwood, on ihe east by Buffalo, and on the south and west by the Juniata River. Of the early settlers of the territory comprising Howe was Robert Brison, who warranted 200 acres of land almost opposite Newport, in June, 1762.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Howe Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
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). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (6), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
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