Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Miller Township was built recently: 10% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1981. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1907 on, and old-book passages.
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 Miller Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Miller Township. 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 Miller Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Miller Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Miller Township is a township in Perry County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 965 at the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,098 to 962 (-12%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Miller Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
As near as the facts can be learned probably the first telephone line in Perry County was at Bailey's Station, in Miller Township, where it connected the old-time water station with the telegraph tower a quarter of a mile away. This was a private line used for railroad business only. The first line of a semi-public nature was the one built by the old Perry County Railroad Company, from New Bloomfield, to connect with the offices of the Duncannon
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the Juniata, on which he built a gristmill and a sawmill. ‘The property is described as being “at the Upper Falls, below the great bend south of Newport.” John Bowman had evidently some prior claim on the property at Bailey Station, in Miller Township, as it is referred to in Samuel Martin’s will as the property purchased of him. In a mortgage it is mentioned as ‘“‘above the Falls, adjoining Dick’s Hill.” Caroline furnace was erected by John D. Creigh in 1836, and began operations the same year. It later came into the pos-
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from the Blue Hills.” That location is impossible, as twenty-five miles (or twenty miles) from the mouth of the Juniata would be in Juniata County, while ten miles north from the Blue Hills would be in the vicinity of Wheatfield or Miller Township, in Perry County. Wright’s History places Starr’s settlement “probably near the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge over Buffalo Creek,” above Newport, and those of Lycon and others “probably in Pfoutz’s Valley,” while the records of the land office show them to have been in Walker Township, Juniata County. In the letter to
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the Juniata, on which he built a gristmill and a sawmill. The property is described as being "at the Upper Falls, below the great bend south of Newport." John Bowman had evidently some prior claim on the property at Bailey Station, in Miller Township, as it is referred to in Samuel Martin's will as the property purchased of him. In a mortgage it is mentioned as "above the Falls, adjoining Dick's Hill." Caroline furnace was erected by John D. Creigh in 1836, and began operations the same year. It later came-into the 1 Mis-
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.
One 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 Miller Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Nobody well known was born in Miller Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Baileysburgh, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
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 (3), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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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