Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 6 old photos and papers from 1870 on and old-book passages.
Tidioute dates its founding to 1800 (Wikidata). Its post office opened in 1844.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Tidioute yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Tidioute is a borough in Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, Tidioute had a population of 626.
Tidioute was established in 1800. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 688 to 626 (-9%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereFrank J. Marion is born here
In the archiveWest side of Triumph Hill, near Tidioute, Pa
In the archiveTidioute, Warren County, Pennsylvania 1896
In the archiveTriumph HillPassages that mention Tidioute, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Siggins, and operated the sawmill for Young. The two saw-mills and the grist-mill of Joseph and Darius Mead were then in active operation in the western part of the town. One John Crawford lived near the turn of the road leading to Tidioute, at Irvinton, the place being afterward occupied by John Long. Joseph Gray lived near the site of the Irvinton station, where the spring and the oak trees may now be seen. John Andrews had built a saw-
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their corn, necklaces, earrings, stone knives, tips of spears, Indian pipes and other quaintly fashioned tokens of the existence of a tribe of the Delaware Indians in the vicinity of the present town of Tidioute. In the interests of the French came in 1749 de Celeron with a large party and followed the southern shores of Lakes Ontario and Erie to a point opposite Lake Chautauqua where they made portage over the dividing bridge and
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
3 decades in the archive, from the 1870s to the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
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Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1800, according to Wikidata. Tidioute’s post office opened in 1844.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 (3), the Library of Congress (3), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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