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History · Toby Township

Toby Township’s post office opened in 1825, and 31% of its homes were built before 1940

1825first post office
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How Toby Township began

When was Toby Township founded?

1825

The Toby Township post office opened in 1825, the earliest record of the town by name. Six smaller post offices, Toby (1825), Upper Hillville (1876) and Toby (1883), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 982201 years
Founding year: the first Toby Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Toby Township’s past

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

Lost villages6 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Toby Township, and 5 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Toby Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1825: 201 years of Toby Township.Old housesHalf of Toby Township’s homes were built before 1955.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

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

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

Toby
1825–1842
Upper Hillville
1876–1877
Toby
1883–1906
Bela
1886–1914
Fredell
1897–1916
Huey
1897–1983
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BelaHueyMount AiryTobyUpper Hillville
Gone or out of use
Fredell Post Officepost officeJocelyn MinemineWatson Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Toby Township
Associated United Presbyterian ChurchRimersburg

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

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

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Timeline

Toby Township, 1825 to 1906

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1825Post officeThe Toby post office opens
  3. 1842Post officeThe Toby post office closes
  4. 1876Post officeThe Upper Hillville post office opens
  5. 1877Post officeThe Upper Hillville post office closes
  6. 1883Post officeThe Toby post office opens
  7. 20th century
  8. 1906Post officeThe Toby post office closes
The story so far

Toby Township, in brief

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

Toby Township is a township in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 984 at the 2020 census, a decrease from the figure of 991 in 2010 census, which was, in turn, a decline from 1,166 at the 2000 census.

Its first post office opened in 1825. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 991 in 2010, 982 in 2020.

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

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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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Famous people

Famous people close to Toby Township

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

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Jane WolfeAmerican silent film character actress and Thel… · b. 1875
Robert Burns WilsonPainter and poet · b. 1850
Willis James HulingsAmerican politician · b. 1850
Ossee SchreckengostAmerican baseball player · b. 1875
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William E. SnyderUnited States Navy sailor · b. 1883
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Perry TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMadison TownshipIts storyB+RimersburgIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSligoIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLicking Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPerry TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPiney TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Toby Township’s history

What year was Toby Township founded?

The Toby Township post office opened in 1825, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 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.