The Peach Bottom Township post office opened in 1814, the earliest record of the town by name. Seven smaller post offices, Peach Bottom (1814), Slate Ridge (1837) and Bryansviile (1850), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 4,966212 years
How historic is Peach Bottom Township?
A−
More historic than 76% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Peach Bottom Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Peach Bottom Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Peach Bottom Township is more historic than 76% of U.S. towns, #384 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Peach Bottom 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 Peach Bottom Township’s 8.0 sits above most of its state (74% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 4 listings outnumber those of 68% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from B+ to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±9.3 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (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 →
What stands out about Peach Bottom Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Peach Bottom Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Peach Bottom is an unincorporated village in Fulton Township, Lancaster County, in the state of Pennsylvania, United States. It lies on the east bank of the Susquehanna River. The original town of Peach Bottom was located across the river in York County. With the construction of the Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad up the east side of the Susquehanna (1866–1868), a station was built on the Lancaster County side, near the mouth of Peters Creek, from which Peach Bottom could be reached by ferry. This was known as Peach Bottom Station. The Peach Bottom Railway had terminals at both Peach Bottom and Peach Bottom Station; a planned bridge to connect them was never built. The line on the east s…
Its first post office opened in 1814. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 4,813 to 4,966 (+3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Peach Bottom Township in 1886
Passages that mention Peach Bottom Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of York County Pennsylvania From the Earliest Time to the Present1886 · page 169Read the page →
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His first charge was at Mahanoy, Schuylkill County, from which he went to Coleraine, Lancaster County, next to Green Valley, Chester County, and in 1879 came to Peach Bottom Township, York, where he took charge of a small congregation at Glenwood School House. On the completion of the new church in Dela in 1884, he removed there.
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History of York County, Pennsylvania1886 · page 169Read the page →
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His lirst charge was at Mahanoy Schuylkill County, from which he went to Coleraine, Lancaster County, next to Green Vullev, Chester County, and in 1879 came to Peach Bottom Township, York, where he took charge of a small congregation at Glenwood School House. On the completion of the new church in Dela in 1884, he removed there.
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church is located a short distance southeast of the village of Airville, and its early history was intimately connected with the Slate Ridge Church, of Peach Bottom Township, the two congregations, being served by the same pastoi-s for many years. The exact time of its organization could not be accurately ascertained, though references are made
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History of York County Pennsylvania From the Earliest Time to the Present1886 · page 399Read the page →
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Patrick Scott was a man of great individuality of character, and one of the first settlers who attained prominence in the local affairs of Peach Bottom Township. He was an Irish Presbyterian, and early in the history of Slate Ridge congregation, became an influential ruling elder. When the church building was moved from the mouth of
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
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The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Peach Bottom Township.
1983York sheet · 1:100,000
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Peach Bottom Township.
On the National Register
4 historic places in Peach Bottom Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
The Peach Bottom Township post office opened in 1814, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Peach Bottom Township rank for history?
Peach Bottom Township is more historic than 76% of U.S. towns, #384 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 Peach Bottom Township?
4 listings: 1 historic district, the Coulsontown Cottages Historic District, with 4 contributing buildings, and 3 structures.
How old are the homes in Peach Bottom Township?
11% of Peach Bottom Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±9.3 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1983.
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 the National Register of Historic Places (4), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.
