Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 37% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Tuscarora Township is more historic than 37% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
Pennsylvania towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Pennsylvania town has 2.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Tuscarora Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (25% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
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 Tuscarora Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Tuscarora Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Tuscarora Township is a township in Perry County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,310 at the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 1,189 to 1,313 (+10%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Tuscarora Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
After the Indian troubles subsided James went back to what is now Tuscarora Township, Perry County, and lived there and reared his family there. James Loudon died September 22, 1783, and his remains rest on the old Bull’s Hill graveyard, in Tuscarora Township, where the oldest stone marks his grave. ‘This old burial place is named after the famous Bull family, from whom came Capt. Bull, famous in the Second War with Great Britain.
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Ward's mill was located in Tuscarora Township, near the mouth of Raccoon Creek, and not far from the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, on lands once owned by Jacob F. Markley, which passed to George Rothrock in 1844, and to others in 1858. In 1868 Fietta Ward, wife of John Ward, became the owner. Just when it was built cannot be stated but, in the deed of 1868, from Wm. and Jacob Rothrock and William J. Jones, it is described as having thereon erected "a frame gristmill and sawmill."
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Ward’s mill was located in Tuscarora Township, near the mouth of Raccoon Creek, and not far from the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, on lands once owned by Jacob F. Markley, which passed to George Rothrock in 1844, and to others in 1858. In 1868 Fietta Ward, wife of John Ward, became the owner. Just when it was built cannot be stated but, in the deed of 1868, from Wm. and Jacob Rothrock and William J. Jones, it is described as having thereon erected “a frame gristmill and sawmill.”
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After the Indian troubles subsided James went back to what is now Tuscarora Township, Perry County, and lived there and reared his family there. James Loudon died September 22, 1783, and his remains rest on the old Bull's Hill graveyard, in Tuscarora Township, where the oldest stone marks his grave. This old burial place is named after the famous Bull family, from whom came Capt. Bull, famous in the Second War with Great Britain.
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Tuscarora 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 Tuscarora Township.
Nobody well known was born in Tuscarora Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Donnally Mills, 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).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Tuscarora Township is more historic than 37% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
15% of Tuscarora Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.2 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1978.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (6), 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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