Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Nyttend · Public domainBelow: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1900 on, and the census since 1870.
Manorville dates its founding to 1854 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1870.
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 Manorville’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Manorville. 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 Manorville.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Manorville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Manorville is a borough in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 382 at the 2020 census.
Manorville was established in 1854. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 410 to 382 (-7%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Manorville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
been approved by the grand jury and having laid over the time required by law, the court ordered and decreed, June 6, 1866, that the village of Manorville be erected and incorporated into a body corporate and politic, to be known and designated as the borough of Manorville, with the followingmetes and bounds: Beginning at a red oak on the bank of the Allegheny river; thence on the line
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MANORVILLE John Sibbett in 1854 laid out the town of Manorville, which lies between Kittanning and Ford City. It was incorporated as a borough in 1866.
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Twenty-four lots were laid out for John Sibbett "in the town of Manorville," June 28, 1854, lying between the present eastern boundary of the borough and Water street, and between the northern boundary of the manor tract, which extends through the borough along the center of a " lane 22 feet wide," as designated on the plat of the borough, and which is between H. M. Lamb-
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When Josiah Copley, a, well-known editor and writer, removed from Pittsburgh to the hill above what has since become the village of Manorville, he and Mr. Hamlet Totten, of Rural Village, instituted Sunday school and prayer meeting services in the log schoolhouse which then occupied the site of the present parsonage, these good men walking from their
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archive1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Pennsylvania - Armstrong County - ED 3-50…
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyOne decade in the archive so far: the 1850s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Manorville’s page.
Retake this view · +15Peaked at 662 in 1950; 382 people lived here in 2020.
16 censuses, 1870–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Manorville’s Wikipedia page.
In 1854, according to Wikidata. Manorville’s post office opened in 1864, and the census of 1870 counted 330 people here.
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 (4), 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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