Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Clint · CC BY-SA 2.0Its Register listings are the New Germantown Covered Bridge, the O'Donel House and Farm and the Lupfer, Israel and Samuel, Tannery Site and House. Below: maps from 1919 on and old-book passages.
Toboyne Township dates its founding to 1755 (Wikidata). Its post office opened in 1826.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Toboyne Township’s history is told.
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of Toboyne Township.
The Israel and Samuel Lupfer Tannery Site and House and O'Donel House and Farm are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Toboyne Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Run. He lived there several years before taking up the Waggoner mill tract. May 13, 1763, on Roddy's Run. He purchased other lands adjoining his on both sides of "the run," and in 1767 was assessed with 100 acres and a gristmill in Toboyne Township, and 300 acres and a sawmill in Tyrone Township, part of this 300 acres being the original tract warranted by him on Montour's Run. His sons, Josiah and Alexander Roddy, warranted 175 acres in 1786, and in 1789 the Roddys took out a warrant for 312 acres adjoining the county home tract. Robert and James Wilson, whose de-
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Run. He lived there several years before taking up the Waggoner mill tract, May 13, 1763, on Roddy’s Run. He purchased other lands adjoining his on both sides of “the run,” and in 1767 was assessed with 100 acres and a gristmill in Toboyne Township, and 300 acres and a sawmill in Tyrone Township, part of this 300 acres being the original tract warranted by him on Montour’s Run. His sons, Josiah and Alexander Roddy, warranted 175 acres in 1786, and in 1789 the Roddys took out a warrant for. 312 acres adjoining the county home tract. Robert and James Wilson, whose de-
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of the Blain Lutheran Church, is the old agreement for the purchase of the cemetery plot. It follows : Articles of an agreement made and concluded this 13th day of December, 1800, by and between James Adams, Junior, of Toboyne Township, Cumberland County, and Henry Simmerman, Adam Hoobler, Christopher Bower, and Peter Brown, "trustees for a certain piece of land undermentioned to build a meeting house on."
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of the Blain Lutheran Church, is the old agreement for the purchase of the cemetery plot. It follows: Articles of an agreement made and concluded this 13th day of December, 1800, by and between James Adams, Junior, of Toboyne Township, Cumberland County, and Henry Simmerman, Adam Hoobler, Christopher Bower, and Peter Brown, “trustees for a certain piece of land undermentioned to build a meeting house on.”
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Toboyne Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Toboyne Township.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Toboyne Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1755, according to Wikidata. Toboyne Township’s post office opened in 1826.
Three places: the New Germantown Covered Bridge (listed 1980), the O'Donel House and Farm (1986) and the Lupfer, Israel and Samuel, Tannery Site and House (2003).
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 National Register of Historic Places (3), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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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