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More historic than 88% of U.S. towns · #220 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Millersburg Passenger Rail Station. Below: 4 old photos and papers, maps from 1884 on, and the census since 1860.
Millersburg dates its founding to 1807 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1860.
More historic than 88% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Millersburg is more historic than 88% of U.S. towns, #220 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
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 Millersburg’s 4.0 sits near the middle of its state (64% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
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 →
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 Millersburg’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Millersburg. 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 Millersburg.
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
1884Sheet 1 of 2Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
From Wikipedia’s history of Millersburg.
Millersburg was formed in 1807 from a portion of Upper Paxton Township. Its founder was Daniel Miller, for whom the community was named.
The Millersburg Ferry and Millersburg Passenger Rail Station are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Passages that mention Millersburg, cut from the printed page as they were published.
This is an enterprising town of about 900 people, situated on the Summit Branch railroad, nine miles from Millersburg. It was platted in 18 17 by John Bender, who owned a large tract of land in that locality. For many years it was known as "Benderstoettle," but was finally renamed for John Bender's wife. Before it was iaid out Richard Peter had built a house on the ground. After the platting, the hrst house was built by John Bender. Martin Paul was the pioneer blacksmith in the place, but John Smith had one
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Sheafer, superintendent, and Simon Sallade, director. The road was completed and began transporting coal in 1834, by horse-power, on a flat strap-rail. A number of ark-loads of coal were shipped from Millersburg in March and April, 1834. Then the coal-cars were boated across the Susquehanna from the end of the railroad at Millersburg to Mount Patrick, on the opposite side of the stream, in Perry' county. Here the Lykens Valley Company had a set of chutes on the canal, where they shipped their coal to market. The
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.
Born hereSumner Bowman is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveMillersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania 1894
In the archiveMillersburg PA Reformed PHS3652 decades in the archive, from the 1890s to the 1920s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
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2009Millersburg, PA Keystone MarkerNo 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 Millersburg’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Between 961 and 3,074 people in every census since 1860.
17 censuses, 1860–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Millersburg’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1807, according to Wikidata. Millersburg’s post office opened in 1827, and the census of 1860 counted 961 people here.
Millersburg is more historic than 88% of U.S. towns, #220 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. 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.
One place: the Millersburg Passenger Rail Station (listed 2002).
38% of Millersburg’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.3 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1953.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (18), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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, Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress) 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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