Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: old-book passages.
The Nottingham post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name.
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 Nottingham’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Nottingham yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Nottingham is an unincorporated community and census-designated place that is located in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The CDP is divided between East Nottingham Township and West Nottingham Township.
Its first post office opened in 1833.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Nottingham, cut from the printed page as they were published.
and arriving on the Sth of October, 1726, when William and David Morison purchased a share in the new township of Nottingham, N. HL, for whieh a charter had been granted, and which Was then being surveyed, preparatory to settlement, Nottingham was then without a human habitation, and contained within its limits the present towns of Nottingham, Deerfield, and Northwood, N, H , The survey of the “First Division” lots having been com-
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and arriving on the 8th of October, 1726, when William and David Morison purchased a share in the new township of Nottingham, N. H., for which a charter had been granted, and which was then being surveyed, preparatory to settlement. Nottingham was then without a human habitation, and contained within its limits the present towns of Nottingham, Deerfield, and Northwood, N. H.
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Another tradition, preserved in the branch of Morisons which settled in Nottingham, N. EL, is to the same effeet, and points in the same direction, This branch of the family emigrated from Scotland to Ireland, at the time of the siege of Derry, 1688, and to Nottingham, N. UL, in 1727. This statement is from Ion, Robert Morrison, of Northwood, N. UL, a former mayor of Portsmouth, N. FL, who received it in the early part of the present century, trom an aged relative whose birth dates back to
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Another tradition, preserved in the branch of Morisons which settled in Nottingham, N. H'., is to the same effect, and points in the same direction. This branch of the family emigrated from Scotland to Ireland, at the time of the siege of Derry, 1688, and to Nottingham, N. H., in 1727. This statement is from Hon.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Nottingham itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Nottingham post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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) 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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