The story
Read it all →How Snyder Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Snyder Township.
The Redferd Segers House at Crenshaw was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Snyder Township
17% of Snyder Township’s homes were built before 1940
More historic than 69% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Redferd Segers House. Below: maps from 1940 on and the census since 1850.
1on the National Register
17%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
Where Snyder Township’s name came from
How did Snyder Township get its name?
Snyder Township was named for Governor of Pennsylvania Simon Snyder.
How historic is Snyder Township?
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What drives the grade ↓More historic than 69% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Name: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Snyder Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Snyder Township is more historic than 69% of U.S. towns. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Snyder Township’s overall grade.
Founding eraNo founding year we can rely on, so the grade uses the other two–Homes built before 194017.3% of homes (±5.6) · typical PA town 17.7% · U.S. 8.4%BNational Register1 listing, 4.4 per 10,000 residents · typical PA town 2.1 · U.S. 2.4B
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 69%
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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 Snyder Township’s 4.4 sits above most of its state (65% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±5.6 points).
Founding year: our sources. 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 →
What stands out about Snyder Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Snyder Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Snyder Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Sugar Hill
Lanes Mills
Crenshaw
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BeechtonCrenshawDetwoodErie JunctionLanes MillsSugar Hill
Gone or out of use
Frost Schoolschool
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Snyder Township
Heath HomesteadSaint TobiasSugar Hill
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Timeline
Snyder Township, 1877 to 1966
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1877Post officeThe Sugar Hill post office opens
- 1885Post officeThe Lanes Mills post office opens
- 1886Post officeThe Crenshaw post office opens
- 20th century
- 1908Post officeThe Sugar Hill post office closes
- 1940
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey - 1942Post officeThe Lanes Mills post office closes
- 1966Post officeThe Crenshaw post office closes
By decade
Snyder Township, decade by decade
2018
2015
2012
2012
2012
2008On the map
Snyder Township on the map, 1940 to 1989
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Snyder Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1940Hallton 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 Snyder Township.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Snyder 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
2000
Redferd Segers House
Buildings
Architectural styles listings
Stick1
Eastlake1
Gothic Revival1
Italianate1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
People over time
Snyder Township, census by census
Between 306 and 2,626 people in every census since 1850.
18 censuses, 1850–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Snyder Township’s Wikipedia page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Snyder Township
Nobody well known was born in Snyder Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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Joan ChittisterRoman Catholic nun, activist, writer and academ… · b. 1936
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Snyder Township’s history
How does Snyder Township rank for history?
Snyder Township is more historic than 69% of U.S. towns. 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.
What is on the National Register in Snyder Township?
One place: the Redferd Segers House (listed 2000).
How old are the homes in Snyder Township?
17% of Snyder Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.6 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1968.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (6), 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.