Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: old-book passages.
The Salona post office opened in 1836, the earliest record of the town by name.
Salona was named for the Greek city of Thessalonica.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Salona’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Salona yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Salona is an unincorporated community in Lamar Township, Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located along Pennsylvania Route 477, 3.7 miles (6.0 km) south of Lock Haven. It was named for the Greek city of Thessalonica.
Its first post office opened in 1836.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Salona, cut from the printed page as they were published.
except the old cemetery on the hill at the western end of Lock Haven, and several smaller ones, one of which was located in Bald Eagle valley, and the other two severally at the eastern end of the town of Salona, and on the hill on the southwest, where the old Reformed church stood. All of these had become crowded, and none of them possessed that order, nor were kept in that secure condition, which the eye of affection loves to see around the resting place of its
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Lamar township. In 1859 they moved to Johnstown, Pa., where the subject of this sketch attended school until 1863. His father was killed about that time in a wreck on the railroad, and the family returned to Salona. In 1873 Mr. Shearer began an apprenticeship at the saddler trade with C. W. Rote, of Salona. After completing his trade he worked for a season at Clintondale with I. R. McGee; then returned to Salona, and started a shop of his own. Mr. Shearer was married April 7th, 1881,
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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The Salona post office opened in 1836, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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). How TownRatings grades history →
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