2 of Newberry Township’s places are on the National Register
More historic than 49% of U.S. towns · #755 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Hammersly-Strominger House and the Kise Mill Bridge. Most of Newberry Township was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1984. Below: maps from 1906 on and the census since 2000.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Newberry Township is more historic than 49% of U.S. towns, #755 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Newberry Township’s overall grade.
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 Newberry Township’s 1.3 sits near the middle of its state (54% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±3.4 points).
Founding year: our sources. 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 →
What stands out about Newberry Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds
Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Newberrytown
1826–1910
Yocumtown
1831–1906
Erneys
1889–1903
Cly
1898–1938
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Bass LakeClyColdsborough ManorConewago HeightsErneyHarvest HillsLaurel Wood Mobile Home ParkNewberrytownPark Away Mobile Home ParkPlainfieldPleasant GroveQuaker VillageRamblewoodSkyview Mobile Home ParkValley GreenValley Green EstatesWoodsideYocumtown
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Newberry Township
FetrowMillerPaddletownSmoketown
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
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Start Newberry Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Newberry Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Newberry Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1906New Cumberland 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 Newberry Township.
Prior to the coming of the first settlers in 1736, Newberry Township was inhabited by the Susquehannock Indians. Before 1736, all settlement in Pennsylvania was kept east of the Susquehanna River, but the Indian Treaty of 1736 extended Lancaster County's boundary westward indefinitely. Quaker families from Lancaster and Chester counties immediately set out across the Susquehanna to find new land. These settlers utilized the Middletown Ferry to access the west bank of the river, and when they reached what is now Newberry Township, they settled throughout the Fishing Creek and Bennetts Run valleys. Newberry Township was organized in 1742 and included what is now called Fairview Township.
Newberry Township is more historic than 49% of U.S. towns, #755 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.
What is on the National Register in Newberry Township?
Two places: the Hammersly-Strominger House (listed 1978) and the Kise Mill Bridge (1988).
How old are the homes in Newberry Township?
8% of Newberry Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.4 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1984.
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 Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.
