The story
Read it all →How Tyrone Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Tyrone Township.
The Rice Covered Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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History · Tyrone Township
24% of Tyrone Township’s homes were built before 1940
More historic than 79% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Rice Covered Bridge. Below: 3 old photos and papers, maps from 1930 on, and old-book passages.
1on the National Register
24%homes built before 1940
3old photos & papers
1famous people
Quick answers
Where Tyrone Township’s name came from
How did Tyrone Township get its name?
Tyrone Township was named after County Tyrone in Ireland.
How historic is Tyrone Township?
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What drives the grade ↓More historic than 79% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Name: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Tyrone Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Tyrone Township is more historic than 79% of U.S. towns. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Tyrone Township’s overall grade.
Founding eraNo founding year we can rely on, so the grade uses the other two–Homes built before 194023.6% of homes (±4.9) · typical PA town 17.7% · U.S. 8.4%A−National Register1 listing, 5.0 per 10,000 residents · typical PA town 2.1 · U.S. 2.4B
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 79%
NewerOlder
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 Tyrone Township’s 5.0 sits above most of its state (67% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±4.9 points).
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 →
What stands out about Tyrone Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Tyrone Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.From the old history books
What they wrote about Tyrone Township in 1922
Passages that mention Tyrone Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History Of Perry County, Pennsylvania1922 · page 195Read the page →
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“A change was made in 1860, and the following were made the voting places: At the schoolhouse in Germantown district; at Zimmerman’s tavern for the lower district of Toboyne; at the schoolhouse in Landisburg for Tyrone Township; at the schoolhouse near Ickesburg for Saville; at John Koch’s (Kough’s) tavern for the northern district of Juniata Township; at the Union schoolhouse near the Methodist Church in Wheatfield Township; at Colonel Bovard’s tavern for Rye Township; at the house of Straw, for Buffalo Township; at the house of John Gard-
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History of Perry County, Pennsylvania, including descriptions of Indians and pioneer life from the time of earliest settlement1922 · page 1061Read the page →
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Until 1763 Toboyne Township was a part of Tyrone Township, when in accordance with a petition of residents to the court of Cumberland County, it was created a separate township. The action of the court was not very specific in designating boundary lines, as this order would indicate: "Upon application of some of the inhabitants of Tyrone Township to this court,
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History Of Perry County, Pennsylvania1922 · page 1059Read the page →
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Until 1763 Toboyne Township was a part of Tyrone Township, when in accordance with a petition of residents to the court of Cumberland County, it was created a separate township. The action of the court was not very specific in designating boundary lines, as this order would indicate: “Upon application of some of the inhabitants of Tyrone Township to this court,
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
History of Perry County, Pennsylvania, including descriptions of Indians and pioneer life from the time of earliest settlement1922 · page 195Read the page →
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"A change was made in i860, and the following were made the voting places: At the schoolhouse in Germantown district; at Zimmerman's tavern for the lower district of Toboyne; at the schoolhouse in Landisburg for Tyrone Township; at the schoolhouse near Ickesburg for Saville; at John Koch's (Kough's) tavern for the northern district of Juniata Township; at the Union schoolhouse near the Methodist Church in Wheatfield Township; at Colonel Bovard's tavern for Rye Township; at the house of Straw, for Buffalo Township; at the house of John Gard-
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.
Timeline
Tyrone Township, 1799 to 1930
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 18th century
- 1799
Born hereJohn Milton Bernhisel is born here - 19th century
- 1835Post officeThe Loysville post office opens
- 1850
In the archive1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Pennsylvania - Perry County - ED 50-23, E… - 1861Post officeThe Green Park post office opens
- 1878
In the archiveTyrone, Pa - 20th century
- 1930
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade
Tyrone Township, decade by decade
2 decades in the archive, from the 1850s to the 1870s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1850s–1870s2 items
Date unknown1 to date
Date?
2025
2025
2025
2021
2011
2010On the map
Tyrone Township on the map, 1930 to 1977
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Tyrone Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1930Loysville sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Tyrone Township.
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.
Retake this view1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Pennsylvania - Perry County - ED 50-23, ED 50-24, ED 50-25, ED 50-26, E…, 1850
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Tyrone Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15On the National Register
1 historic place in Tyrone Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1980
Rice Covered Bridge
Structures
Architectural styles listings
Burr Truss, 2 Queen Posts1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Places that used to be
Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.
Loysville
Green Park
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Green ParkLoysville
Gone or out of use
Metz Airportairport
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Tyrone Township
LandisburgRestland
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Tyrone Township’s history
How does Tyrone Township rank for history?
Tyrone Township is more historic than 79% 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.
What is on the National Register in Tyrone Township?
One place: the Rice Covered Bridge (listed 1980).
How old are the homes in Tyrone Township?
24% of Tyrone Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.9 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1972.
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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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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).
From Wikimedia Commons (7), the Library of Congress (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.