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History · Lower Turkeyfoot Township

18% of Lower Turkeyfoot Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Lower Humbert Bridge. Below: maps from 1922 on.

1on the National Register
18%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Lower Turkeyfoot Township’s past

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

Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Lower Turkeyfoot Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Lower Turkeyfoot Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19225 editions of the USGS map, 1922 to 1994. Watch Lower Turkeyfoot Township change.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Harnedsville
1848–1929
Drakestown
1857–1868
Draketown
1888–1909
Humbert
1902–1926
18401930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
DraketownHarnedsvilleHumbertHuston
Gone or out of use
Harbaugh SchoolschoolKregar Schoolschool

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

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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lower Turkeyfoot Township’s history is told.

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On the map

Lower Turkeyfoot Township on the map, 1922 to 1994

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

Lower Turkeyfoot Township on the 1922 USGS mapLower Turkeyfoot Township on the 1931 USGS mapLower Turkeyfoot Township on the 1967 USGS mapLower Turkeyfoot Township on the 1973 USGS mapLower Turkeyfoot Township on the 1994 USGS map1922Confluence 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 Lower Turkeyfoot Township.

The story

How Lower Turkeyfoot Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Lower Turkeyfoot Township.

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Turkeyfoot Township was formed from part of Brothersvalley Township in 1773, when both were still part of a larger Bedford County; Somerset County was not formed from the western portion of Bedford County until 1795. Just as new counties were split off from earlier counties, new townships were split off from earlier townships, and the townships of Upper Turkeyfoot & Lower Turkeyfoot took their current shapes in 1848. White settlers arrived in the Turkeyfoot area by the late 1760s, and a group of about 15-20 Baptist families came to the area from New Jersey around 1774.

The Lower Humbert Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Lower Turkeyfoot Township, 1848 to 1929

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1848Post officeThe Harnedsville post office opens
  3. 1857Post officeThe Drakestown post office opens
  4. 1868Post officeThe Drakestown post office closes
  5. 1888Post officeThe Draketown post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1909Post officeThe Draketown post office closes
  8. 1922On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  9. 1929Post officeThe Harnedsville post office closes
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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Lower Turkeyfoot 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
1980
Lower Humbert Bridge
Lower Humbert Bridge
Structures

Architectural styles listings

Burr Truss1
Lower Humbert BridgeBurr Truss

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Lower Turkeyfoot Township

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

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Tamora PierceAmerican writer of fantasy novels for children … · b. 1954
Lot ThomasAmerican politician · b. 1843
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Francis MorrisonMedal of Honor recipient · b. 1845
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Larry CritchfieldAmerican football player · b. 1908
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Upper Turkeyfoot TownshipIts storyBAddison Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHenry Clay TownshipIts storyC+ConfluenceIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSpringfield TownshipIts storyC+UrsinaIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townStewart Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Lower Turkeyfoot Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Lower Turkeyfoot Township?

One place: the Lower Humbert Bridge (listed 1980).

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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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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.