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History · Standing Stone Township

Standing Stone Township’s post office opened in 1826, and 32% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1923 on.

1826first post office
0on the National Register
32%homes built before 1940
2famous people
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How Standing Stone Township began

When was Standing Stone Township founded?

1826

The Standing Stone Township post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Standing Stone (1826) and Rummerfield (1893), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 623200 years
Founding year: the first Standing Stone Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Standing Stone Township’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 Standing Stone Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Standing Stone Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1826: 200 years of Standing Stone Township.On the map since 19234 editions of the USGS map, 1923 to 1978. Watch Standing Stone Township change.
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Start Standing Stone Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Standing Stone Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Standing Stone
1826–1935
Rummerfield
1893–1963
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
RummerfieldStanding Stone
Gone or out of use
West Valley Schoolschool
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Standing Stone Township
GordonIreland CatholicKeene SummitStanding Stone

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Timeline

Standing Stone Township, 1826 to 1963

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1826Post officeThe Standing Stone post office opens
  3. 1869Born hereArthur L. Johnson is born here
  4. 1880Born hereMarian W. Clarke is born here
  5. 1893Post officeThe Rummerfield post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1923On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 1935Post officeThe Standing Stone post office closes
  9. 1963Post officeThe Rummerfield post office closes
The story so far

Standing Stone Township, in brief

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

Standing Stone Township is a township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 642 at the 2010 census.

Its first post office opened in 1826. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 642 to 623 (-3%).

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

By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Standing Stone Township on the map, 1923 to 1978

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Standing Stone Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Standing Stone Township on the 1923 USGS mapStanding Stone Township on the 1943 USGS mapStanding Stone Township on the 1967 USGS mapStanding Stone Township on the 1978 USGS map1923Towanda 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 Standing Stone Township.

Famous people

2 famous people were born in Standing Stone Township

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Marian W. ClarkeAmerican politician · b. 1880
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Arthur L. JohnsonAmerican educator · b. 1869
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Asylum TownshipIts storyB+Herrick TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWysox Township1 historic placeA−Wyalusing Township1 historic placeA

Questions about Standing Stone Township’s history

What year was Standing Stone Township founded?

The Standing Stone Township post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.