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History · Liberty Township

24% of Liberty Township’s homes were built before 1940

More historic than 51% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Below: 9 old photos and papers and maps from 1900 on.

0on the National Register
24%homes built before 1940
9old photos & papers
Add an old photoShare a memory
From Liberty Township’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

About Liberty Township’s history

How historic is Liberty Township?

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More historic than 51% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
History grade

What drives Liberty Township’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Liberty Township is more historic than 51% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.

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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Liberty Township’s overall grade.
Founding eraAge sits out for Liberty Township: no founding date holds up well enough to grade on–Homes built before 194023.7% of homes (±8.1) · typical PA town 17.7% · U.S. 8.4%A−National RegisterNo listings counted · typical PA town 2.1 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 51%
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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 Liberty Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (25% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±8.1 points).

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 →

What stands out about Liberty Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

On the map since 19004 editions of the USGS map, 1900 to 1994. Watch Liberty Township change.Lost villages1 post office opened and closed inside today’s Liberty Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.
★ What stands out · On the map

Liberty Township on the map, 1900 to 1994

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

Liberty Township on the 1900 USGS mapLiberty Township on the 1968 USGS mapLiberty Township on the 1973 USGS mapLiberty Township on the 1994 USGS map1900Everett 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 Liberty Township.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Another post office, Stonerstown, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
East SaxtonHomans CornerMarysvilleStonerstown
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Liberty Township
BrumbaughBunker HillFocklerPhillips Rangers MemorialSaint LukesStonerstown

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

The story so far

Liberty Township, in brief

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

Liberty Township is a township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,383 at the 2020 census. Warriors Path State Park is located in the township.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,368 in 2010, 1,382 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Liberty Township, 1829 to 1940

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1829Post officeThe Stonerstown post office opens
  3. 1862Post officeThe Stonerstown post office closes
  4. 20th century
  5. 1900On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1940In the archiveSilo and landscape near Liberty, Pennsylvania
By decade

Liberty Township, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1940s9 items
Silo and landscape near Liberty, Pennsylvania1940Silo and landscape near Liberty, PennsylvaniaEast Smithfield Farms dairy. Liberty, Pennsylvania1940East Smithfield Farms dairy. Liberty, PennsylvaniaFarm landscape near Liberty, Pennsylvania, along Route 151940Farm landscape near Liberty, Pennsylvania, along Rout…Silos and threshing operations along Route 15 near Liberty, Pennsylvania1940Silos and threshing operations along Route 15 near Li…Silos and threshing operations along Route 15 near Liberty, Pennsylvania1940Silos and threshing operations along Route 15 near Li…Untitled photo, possibly related to: Farm landscape near Liberty, Pennsylvania, along Route 151940Untitled photo, possibly related to: Farm landscape n…Untitled photo, possibly related to: Farm landscape near Liberty, Pennsylvania, along Route 151940Untitled photo, possibly related to: Farm landscape n…Untitled photo, possibly related to: Silos and threshing operations along Route 15 near Liberty, Pennsylvania1940Untitled photo, possibly related to: Silos and thresh…Untitled photo, possibly related to: Silos and threshing operations along Route 15 near Liberty, Pennsylvania1940Untitled photo, possibly related to: Silos and thresh…
1950s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Today9 recent
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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.

Silo and landscape near Liberty, Pennsylvania
Retake this viewSilo and landscape near Liberty, Pennsylvania, 1940

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Liberty Township’s page.

Retake this view · +15
Famous people

Famous people close to Liberty Township

Nobody well known was born in Liberty Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Sandra FlukeAmerican women's rights activist and lawyer · b. 1981
Robert E. EvansAmerican politician · b. 1856
D. Emmert BrumbaughAmerican politician · b. 1894
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Walt IrwinAmerican baseball player · b. 1897
Help out

Finish Liberty Township’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewSilo and landscape near Liberty, Pennsy…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Broad Top Township1 historic placeA−North Woodbury TownshipIts storyC+Woodbury TownshipIts storyB+Hopewell TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRiddlesburgIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCarbon Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSouth Woodbury Township1 historic placeA

Questions about Liberty Township’s history

How does Liberty Township rank for history?

Liberty Township is more historic than 51% of U.S. towns. 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.

How old are the homes in Liberty Township?

24% of Liberty Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.1 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1974.

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).

From Wikimedia Commons (9), the Library of Congress (9), 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.