Founding year: Wikidata; Wikipedia’s history section gives the same year. First post office: 1848.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Liverpool Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Liverpool Township is more historic than 77% of U.S. towns. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its age ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Liverpool Township’s overall grade.
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 Liverpool Township’s 8.5 sits above most of its state (74% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from B+ to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±6.7 points). Two sources give 1808.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). 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 Liverpool Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Liverpool was settled in 1808 by the Stailey family, who emigrated from Liverpool, England, for which it was named. Located beside the Susquehanna River in eastern Perry County, the community was surveyed by John Huggins and plotted by Peter Williamson that year. It was originally made up of the land between present-day North Alley and Strawberry Street. Subsequently incorporated on May 4, 1832, it is one of the nine boroughs incorporated in the county. The neighboring community of Northern Liberties was absorbed into Liverpool at the time of its incorporation.
As the population grew, so did its business offerings, civic services and industries. Its first businessmen were merchant Thomas Gallagher and hotelier John Huggins.
Passages that mention Liverpool Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History Of Perry County, Pennsylvania1922 · page 989Read the page →
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The oldest schoolhouse in the territory of Liverpool Township and borough was located where the Lutheran Church was located later, in the borough. Its usefulness had passed by 1828, when the church was built.
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History Of Perry County, Pennsylvania1922 · page 987Read the page →
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Elliott. The court records show that they were continued at the session of February 3, 1823. Further records are vague, but on the records of September 5, 1823, David Dechert (Deckard) was appointed constable of Liverpool Township, gave bond and was sworn in. The town of Liverpool had been laid out fifteen years prior, and from it the township took its name. Its boundaries have never changed, as have so many of the older townships.
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History of Perry County, Pennsylvania, including descriptions of Indians and pioneer life from the time of earliest settlement1922 · page 962Read the page →
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part of Greenwood Township, Perry County. In 1799 Buffalo Township was created and took off the territory now comprised in Buffalo, Howe and Watts Townships. In 1823 it was again divided by the erection of Liverpool Township. January 4, 1854, a petition was presented to the Perry County courts asking that the lines and boundaries of Greenwood Township be altered and a portion of Juniata (now in Tuscarora) Township, lying in the Raccoon Valley, bordering the river, become a part and so remained until the erection of Tuscarora Township, in 1859, when it
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History of Perry County, Pennsylvania, including descriptions of Indians and pioneer life from the time of earliest settlement1922 · page 989Read the page →
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Liverpool Township. At the extreme northeastern section of the county is Liverpool Township, the eighth in order of formation and the first to be created after the establishment of the new county. It is bounded on the north by Juniata County, on the east by the Susquehanna River, on the south by Buffalo Township, and on the west by Greenwood Township, from which it was taken when formed in 1823. The eastern end of Perry Valley comprises a large part of the township. A small part of Pfoutz Valley lies within its
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
By decade
Liverpool Township, decade by decade
3 decades in the archive, from the 1830s to the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Liverpool Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1943Millerstown 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 Liverpool 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 view1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Pennsylvania - Perry County - ED 50-12, ED 50-13, ED 50-14, ED 50-15, E…, 1850
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Liverpool Township’s page.
In 1808, according to Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history of the town. Liverpool Township’s post office opened in 1848, and the census of 1840 counted 451 people here.
How does Liverpool Township rank for history?
Liverpool Township is more historic than 77% 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.
What is on the National Register in Liverpool Township?
One place: the Red Covered Bridge (listed 1980).
How old are the homes in Liverpool Township?
15% of Liverpool Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.7 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1979.
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 (18), 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), 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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