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History · Oregon Township

12% of Oregon Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
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Photo: Elaine with Grey Cats on Flickr · CC BY-SA 2.0

What stands out about Oregon 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 writtenNo old photos of Oregon Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Oregon Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Oregon Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Carley Brock
1879–1922
Siko
1883–1912
Torrey
1891–1921
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Carley BrookSikoTorrey
Gone or out of use
Smith Hill Schoolschool

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

The story so far

Oregon Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Oregon Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Oregon is a second-class township in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The township's population was 781 at the time of the 2010 United States Census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 781 to 841 (+8%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Oregon Township, 1879 to 1922

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1879Post officeThe Carley Brock post office opens
  3. 1883Post officeThe Siko post office opens
  4. 1891Post officeThe Torrey post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1912Post officeThe Siko post office closes
  7. 1921Post officeThe Torrey post office closes
  8. 1922Post officeThe Carley Brock post office closes
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Oregon Township

Nobody well known was born in Oregon Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Frederick CookAmerican explorer · b. 1865
Henry Augustus RowlandAmerican physicist · b. 1848
Lyman LemnitzerAmerican general · b. 1899
Pat O'MalleyAmerican stage and film actor · b. 1890
Jennie Augusta BrownscombeAmerican painter · b. 1850
Mary Dimmick HarrisonSecond wife of the 23rd United States president… · b. 1858
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Damascus Township3 historic placesADyberry TownshipIts storyCBerlin TownshipIts storyCLebanon TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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 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.