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Stubble field and forest in Wells TownshipPhoto: Nyttend · Public domain
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History · Wells Township

32% of Wells Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1930 on and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
32%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Wells Township’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Wells Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Wells Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wells 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.
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Places that used to be

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

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

Wells Valley
1836–1838
New Grenada
1851–1941
Wells Tannery
1860–today
Enid
1888–1935
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
EnidNew GrenadaWells Tannery
Gone or out of use
Enid Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Wells Township
New GrenadaWells Valley Chapel

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

The story

How Wells Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Wells Township.

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The Woodvale Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. George Croghan moved to the area in 1753 and built a home, partly to escape creditors after suffering severe losses to his business as a trader in Ohio and Kentucky.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Wells Township, 1836 to 1941

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1836Post officeThe Wells Valley post office opens
  3. 1838Post officeThe Wells Valley post office closes
  4. 1851Post officeThe New Grenada post office opens
  5. 1860Post officeThe Wells Tannery post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1930On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 1941Post officeThe New Grenada post office closes
By decade

Wells Township, decade by decade

Today3 recent
2021-11-03 11 26 43 View north along Pennsylvania State Route 915 (North Valley Road) at Wells Valley Road in20212021-11-03 11 26 43 View north along Pennsylvania Sta…PA913wRoadSign2017PA913wRoadSignStubble field and forest in2015Stubble field and forest in
On the map

Wells Township on the map, 1930 to 1973

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Wells Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Wells Township on the 1930 USGS mapWells Township on the 1968 USGS mapWells Township on the 1973 USGS map1930Broad Top sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Wells Township.

People over time

Wells Township, census by census

010020030040050020002020Peak: 529

Between 477 and 529 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Wells Township’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Wells Township

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

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Dean KoontzAmerican writer and screenwriter · b. 1945
Sandra FlukeAmerican women's rights activist and lawyer · b. 1981
Robert E. EvansAmerican politician · b. 1856
James Monroe MillerAmerican politician (Republican) · b. 1852
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Earl HowardAmerican baseball player · b. 1896
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Hughie TateAmerican baseball player · b. 1880
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

East Providence Township2 historic placesA−Taylor TownshipIts storyC+Broad Top Township1 historic placeA−Brush Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWood Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townValley-HiIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Wells Township’s history

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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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (3), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.