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Reedsville is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Kishacoquillas Valley of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 579 at the 2020 census. Reedsville has a high Amish population.
Its first post office opened in 1846. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 641 to 579 (-10%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Reedsville in 1879
Passages that mention Reedsville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
been a most noble specimen of the human race. He was a descendant of a chief of the Cayugas. Logan's spring is on the left bank of the creek, north of the turnpike gate on the Bellefonte Pike, above the town of Reedsville, near Brown's Mills. Wm. Brown, one of the first settlers of the valley, and one of the associate judges of this county from its organization till his death, at the age of ninety-one or ninety-two, has left on record the following in regard to the celebrated Logan.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
By decade
Reedsville, decade by decade
One decade in the archive so far: the 1920s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Reedsville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1924Lewistown 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 Reedsville.
Every building
Reedsville, building by building, 1904–1910
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
1904Sheet 1 of 1
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Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Then & now
Stand where they stood
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this viewReedsville PA 1st Presby PHS525, 1923
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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 Wikimedia Commons (4), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress) 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.
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