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History · Terry Township

24% of Terry Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: 6 old photos and papers from 1933 on.

0on the National Register
24%homes built before 1940
6old photos & papers
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From Terry Township’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Terry Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Terry Township, and 5 old place names are still on the map.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

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

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

Terrytown
1826–1904
New Era
1857–1904
Rienzi
1886–1904
Viallhill
1899–1904
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
CherrytownNew EraRienzeTerrytownViall Hill
Gone or out of use
Norway Ridge SchoolschoolWindfall Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Terry Township
New EraTerrytown

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

The story so far

Terry Township, in brief

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

Terry Township is a township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. The population was 992 at the 2010 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 992 to 905 (-9%).

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

Timeline

Terry Township, 1826 to 1933

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1826Post officeThe Terrytown post office opens
  3. 1857Post officeThe New Era post office opens
  4. 1886Post officeThe Rienzi post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1904Post officeThe Terrytown post office closes
  7. 1904Post officeThe New Era post office closes
  8. 1904Post officeThe Rienzi post office closes
  9. 1933In the archiveHABS PA,8-TERTO,1- (sheet 0 of 15) - Log Cabin, Terrytown, Bradford County, PA
By decade

Terry Township, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1930s6 items
HABS PA,8-TERTO,1- (sheet 0 of 15) - Log Cabin, Terrytown, Bradford County, PA1933HABS PA,8-TERTO,1- (sheet 0 of 15) - Log Cabin, Terry…HABS PA,8-TERTO,1- (sheet 1 of 15) - Log Cabin, Terrytown, Bradford County, PA1933HABS PA,8-TERTO,1- (sheet 1 of 15) - Log Cabin, Terry…HABS PA,8-TERTO,1- (sheet 10 of 15) - Log Cabin, Terrytown, Bradford County, PA1933HABS PA,8-TERTO,1- (sheet 10 of 15) - Log Cabin, Terr…HABS PA,8-TERTO,1- (sheet 11 of 15) - Log Cabin, Terrytown, Bradford County, PA1933HABS PA,8-TERTO,1- (sheet 11 of 15) - Log Cabin, Terr…HABS PA,8-TERTO,1- (sheet 12 of 15) - Log Cabin, Terrytown, Bradford County, PA1933HABS PA,8-TERTO,1- (sheet 12 of 15) - Log Cabin, Terr…HABS PA,8-TERTO,1- (sheet 13 of 15) - Log Cabin, Terrytown, Bradford County, PA1933HABS PA,8-TERTO,1- (sheet 13 of 15) - Log Cabin, Terr…
1940s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

HABS PA,8-TERTO,1- (sheet 0 of 15) - Log Cabin, Terrytown, Bradford County, PA
Retake this viewHABS PA,8-TERTO,1- (sheet 0 of 15) - Log Cabin, Terrytown, Bradford County, PA, 1933

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Terry Township’s page.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Terry Township

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

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Philip Van Doren SternAmerican writer and historian · b. 1900
Ada BittenbenderAmerican lawyer, feminist activist · b. 1848
Daniel B. TownerAmerican composer · b. 1850
J
John LaporteAmerican politician · b. 1798
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Kenneth E. CasterAmerican paleontologist · b. 1908
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Maynard BixbyProspector, miner, mine broker, author, explore… · b. 1853
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Finish Terry Township’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewHABS PA,8-TERTO,1- (sheet 0 of 15) - Lo…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Wyalusing Township1 historic placeAWyalusing1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAlbany TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAsylum TownshipIts storyB+Wilmot TownshipIts storyB−

Questions about Terry Township’s history

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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). 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.