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History · Mehoopany Township

Mehoopany Township’s post office opened in 1832, and 41% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1945 on.

1832first post office
0on the National Register
41%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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From Mehoopany Township’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Mehoopany Township began

When was Mehoopany Township founded?

1832

The Mehoopany Township post office opened in 1832, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, North Mehoopany (1889), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 899194 years
Founding year: the first Mehoopany Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Mehoopany Township’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1832: 194 years of Mehoopany Township.
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Start Mehoopany Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewMehoopany PA Presby PHS353: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Timeline

Mehoopany Township, 1832 to 1954

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1832Post officeThe Mehoopany post office opens
  3. 1889Post officeThe North Mehoopany post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1923In the archiveMehoopany PA Presby PHS353
  6. 1945On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1954Post officeThe North Mehoopany post office closes
The story

How Mehoopany Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Mehoopany Township.

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The earliest settlements in Mehoopany were located in the "Vaughn's Bend" and "Grist Flat". Vaughn's Bend was first settled by a veteran of the American Revolutionary War named Henry Love shortly after its end. Meanwhile, the Grist Flat was settled later on in an unknown period by a man named Grist.

The first house supported by a frame building was built by a man known as David Jayne in the year 1806.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Mehoopany Township, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1920s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1920s1 item
Mehoopany PA Presby PHS3531923Mehoopany PA Presby PHS353
1930s–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.
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On the map

Mehoopany Township on the map, 1945 to 1999

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

Mehoopany Township on the 1945 USGS mapMehoopany Township on the 1969 USGS mapMehoopany Township on the 1999 USGS map1945Meshoppen sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Mehoopany 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.

Mehoopany PA Presby PHS353
Retake this viewMehoopany PA Presby PHS353, 1923

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

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices and old corners

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

Mehoopany
1832–today
North Mehoopany
1889–1954
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
MehoopanyNorth Mehoopany

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Washington TownshipIts storyC+Meshoppen TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMeshoppen1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWindham TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townForkston TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Mehoopany Township’s history

What year was Mehoopany Township founded?

The Mehoopany Township post office opened in 1832, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 Wikimedia Commons (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.