Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 63% of U.S. towns · #563 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
Below: maps from 1902 on and old-book passages.
The Quincy Township post office opened in 1830, the earliest record of the town by name. Five smaller post offices, Five Forks (1873), Altenwald (1881) and Tomstown (1892), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 63% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Quincy Township is more historic than 63% of U.S. towns, #563 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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 Quincy Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (25% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
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 →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Five other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Quincy Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Quincy Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Quincy Township.
From Wikipedia’s history of Quincy Township.
A post office has been in operation at Quincy since 1830. Quincy originally was built up chiefly by Germans.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Quincy Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Roiczersville was laid out in 1868 by Peter Rouzer; population a few hundred; has Methodist Episcopal Church, organized in 1873, and a Dunker Church, established in 1873. For list of preachers, see Mont Alto Circuit under Quincy Township. The Salem (formerly Besore's) Reformed Church dates its establishment from 1773. The first services were held in a small log schoolhouse, by Rev.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Rowzersville was laid out in 1868 by Peter Rouzer; population a few hundred; has Methodist Episcopal Church, organized in 1873, and a Dunker Church, established in 1873: For list of preachers, see Mont Alto Circuit under Quincy Township. ' The Salem (formerly Besore’s) Reformed Church dates its establishment from 1773. The first services were held in a small log schoolhouse, by Rev.
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in Quincy Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Quincy Township post office opened in 1830, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Quincy Township is more historic than 63% of U.S. towns, #563 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.
22% of Quincy Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.9 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1975.
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).
From Wikipedia, 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.
