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Quick answers
How Springhill Township began
When was Springhill Township founded?
1822
The Springhill Township post office opened in 1822, the earliest record of the town by name. Eight smaller post offices, Springhill (1822), Morris Cross Roads (1851) and Wymps Gap (1880), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 2,722204 years
How historic is Springhill Township?
B
More historic than 65% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Springhill Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Springhill Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Springhill Township is more historic than 65% of U.S. towns, #549 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
B
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Springhill Township’s overall grade.
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 Springhill 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.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from B− to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±9.0 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
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 →
What stands out about Springhill Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Eight other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Springhill
1822–1831
Morris Cross Roads
1851–1903
Wymps Gap
1880–1906
Winsted
1886–1895
Gans
1894–1964
Davidson
1897–1904
Outcrop
1900–1934
Guyaux
1905–1956
Lake Lynn
1927–today
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AtlanticBlosser HillCornishCrystalDavidsonFriendship HeightsGansGreater Point MarionLake LynnLocust HillMorris CrossroadsNilanOutcropSpringhillSprucetownWhite HouseWinstead
Gone or out of use
Bunker Hill SchoolschoolMonongahela River Lock and Dam SevendamWymps Gap Schoolschool
16cemeteries and burying grounds inside Springhill Township
Baker FamilyBlosser CageyBrick ChurchBuncicCedar GroveClareEvergreen Memorial ParkGans FarmHardin FamilyLittle ArlingtonLyonsMount Moriah PresbyterianOak Grove Church of ChristPoint MarionSpringhill Furnace Presbyterian ChurchSwearingen's Fort Burial Site
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
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Start Springhill Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Springhill 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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Springhill Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1900Masontown 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 Springhill Township.
"The name "Springhill" was given by Col. George Wilson, the earliest settler on Georges Creek (at its mouth, in what is now Nicholson township), who had come here from Springhill, in Augusta [County], Va., and had given that name to the new region in which he settled. That was while all the Monongahela country was included in Cumberland County; and the old Springhill township of that county embraced an immense territory, covering all the southern part of what is now Fayette, all of Greene, and the south part of the present county of Washington."
Spring Hill Township was formed in 1771 when the area was part of Bedford County. It contained all of what is now Greene County, part of Washington County and nearly all of Fayette County.
The Springhill Township post office opened in 1822, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Springhill Township rank for history?
Springhill Township is more historic than 65% of U.S. towns, #549 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.
How old are the homes in Springhill Township?
24% of Springhill Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±9.0 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1977.
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), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
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