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History · Snow Shoe

Snow Shoe’s post office opened in 1840, and 20% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Snow Shoe began

When was Snow Shoe founded?

1840

The Snow Shoe post office opened in 1840, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1850.

2020 census: 670186 years
Founding year: the first Snow Shoe post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1850.

What stands out about Snow Shoe’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 Snow Shoe are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1840: 186 years of Snow Shoe.Old housesHalf of Snow Shoe’s homes were built before 1959.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Snow Shoe’s history is told.

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The story so far

Snow Shoe, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Snow Shoe yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Snow Shoe is a borough in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Snow Shoe had a population of 670. According to tradition, Snow Shoe was so named when a pair of snowshoes were found at an Indian village near the present town site.

Its first post office opened in 1840. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 765 to 670 (-12%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Snow Shoe, decade by decade

Today6 recent
US Post Office Snow Show PA Jul 172017US Post Office Snow Show PA Jul 17Snow Shoe PA house2015Snow Shoe PA houseSnow Shoe PA United Methodist2015Snow Shoe PA United MethodistSnow Shoe PA Industrial building2015Snow Shoe PA Industrial buildingFormer Snow Shoe PA Presbyterian2015Former Snow Shoe PA PresbyterianCrossing the Stream2007Crossing the Stream
Famous people

Famous people close to Snow Shoe

Nobody well known was born in Snow Shoe itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Jonathan FrakesAmerican actor and director · b. 1952
Jeff VanderMeerAmerican writer · b. 1968
Glenn ThompsonU.S. Representative from Pennsylvania · b. 1959
Andrew Gregg CurtinAmerican politician · b. 1815
George Grey BarnardAmerican sculptor · b. 1863
John Montgomery WardAmerican Major League Baseball pitcher, shortst… · b. 1860
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

ClarenceIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Snow Shoe’s history

What year was Snow Shoe founded?

The Snow Shoe post office opened in 1840, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1850.

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 Wikimedia Commons (6), 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.