The story
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From Wikipedia’s history of President Township.
The Pithole Stone Arch Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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History · President Township
President Township’s post office opened in 1868, and 16% of its homes were built before 1940
Its Register listing is the Pithole Stone Arch. Below: maps from 1922 on and the census since 2000.
1868first post office
1on the National Register
16%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
How President Township began
When was President Township founded?
1868
The President Township post office opened in 1868, the earliest record of the town by name. Four smaller post offices, McCalmont (1857), Eaglerock (1865) and President (1868), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 543 in 20002020 census: 448158 years
Founding year: the first President Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
What stands out about President Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s President Township, and 5 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of President Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19225 editions of the USGS map, 1922 to 1981. Watch President Township change.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
McCalmont
Eaglerock
President
Henrys Bend
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AhrensvilleEagle RockGreen OaksHenrys BendPresident
Gone or out of use
Henrys Bend Post Officepost officePresident Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside President Township
McCrea
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Help out
Start President Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how President Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.On the map
President Township on the map, 1922 to 1981
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of President Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1922Oil City sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of President Township.
Timeline
President Township, 1857 to 1945
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1857Post officeThe McCalmont post office opens
- 1862Post officeThe McCalmont post office closes
- 1865Post officeThe Eaglerock post office opens
- 1868Post officeThe President post office opens
- 20th century
- 1922
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey - 1941Post officeThe Eaglerock post office closes
- 1945Post officeThe President 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.
Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your albumOn the National Register
1 historic place in President Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1988
Pithole Stone Arch
Structures
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
People over time
President Township, census by census
Between 451 and 543 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on President Township’s Wikipedia page.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Cornplanter Township1 historic placeA−Pinegrove TownshipIts storyBCranberry TownshipIts storyBTionesta TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAllegheny TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHarmony TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Questions about President Township’s history
What year was President Township founded?
The President Township post office opened in 1868, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What is on the National Register in President Township?
One place: the Pithole Stone Arch (listed 1988).
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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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 Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.