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History · Plunketts Creek Township

36% of Plunketts Creek Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1930 on.

0on the National Register
36%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Plunketts Creek 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 Plunketts Creek Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Plunketts Creek Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.Old housesHalf of Plunketts Creek Township’s homes were built before 1955.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Plunketts Creek Township’s history is told.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

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

Barbours Mills
1839–1895
Proctor
1885–1953
Barbours
1895–1918
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BarboursHoppestownProctor
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Plunketts Creek Township
BarboursWhipple

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

The story

How Plunketts Creek Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Plunketts Creek Township.

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Plunketts Creek Township was formed from parts of Franklin Township, Lycoming County, and what is now Davidson Township, Sullivan County, by the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Lycoming County in 1838. The township was once much larger in size, but several townships in both Lycoming and Sullivan counties have been carved from its original boundaries. The township is named for Plunketts Creek, a tributary of Loyalsock Creek. The creek is in turn named for Colonel William Plunkett, a frontier doctor and militia officer during the pre-Revolution years in the Province of Pennsylvania. He was noted for his skill in dressing the wounds of pioneers who had been scalped during the French and Indian War. Plunkett was also a veteran of the Pennamite–Yankee War, which had pitted settlers from Connecticut to the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania against those who had been established in Penn…

ChaptersColonial and Revolutionary eraLogging and tanning era20th century

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Timeline

Plunketts Creek Township, 1839 to 1953

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1839Post officeThe Barbours Mills post office opens
  3. 1885Post officeThe Proctor post office opens
  4. 1895Post officeThe Barbours Mills post office closes
  5. 1895Post officeThe Barbours post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1918Post officeThe Barbours post office closes
  8. 1930On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  9. 1953Post officeThe Proctor post office closes
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No old photos in the archives yet

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On the map

Plunketts Creek Township on the map, 1930 to 1986

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Plunketts Creek Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Plunketts Creek Township on the 1930 USGS mapPlunketts Creek Township on the 1953 USGS mapPlunketts Creek Township on the 1965 USGS mapPlunketts Creek Township on the 1973 USGS mapPlunketts Creek Township on the 1986 USGS map1930Warrensville 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 Plunketts Creek Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Plunketts Creek Township

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

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Johnny BentAmerican ice hockey player · b. 1908
Garth EverettAmerican politician · b. 1954
Dick BarrettAmerican baseball player · b. 1906
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Garland GrangePlayer of American football · b. 1906
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D. J. FlickAmerican football player · b. 1980
John Gosse FreezePennsylvanian lawyer and writer · b. 1825
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Gamble TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHillsgrove Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townShrewsbury TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEldred TownshipIts storyC+Upper Fairfield TownshipIts storyBCascade TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Plunketts Creek Township’s history

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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 Wikidata (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.