The story
Read it all →How Wheatfield Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Wheatfield Township.
The Dellville Covered Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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History · Wheatfield Township
10% of Wheatfield Township’s homes were built before 1940
More historic than 54% of U.S. towns · #688 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Dellville Covered Bridge. Below: maps from 1907 on and old-book passages.
1on the National Register
10%homes built before 1940
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About Wheatfield Township’s history
How historic is Wheatfield Township?
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What drives the grade ↓More historic than 54% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
History grade
What drives Wheatfield Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Wheatfield Township is more historic than 54% of U.S. towns, #688 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Wheatfield Township’s overall grade.
Founding eraNo founding year we can rely on, so the grade uses the other two–Homes built before 194010.4% of homes (±6.2) · typical PA town 17.7% · U.S. 8.4%B−National Register1 listing, 3.1 per 10,000 residents · typical PA town 2.1 · U.S. 2.4B
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 54%
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Pennsylvania towns of 2,500+ (1,035)Ahead of 34%
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 Wheatfield Township’s 3.1 sits near the middle of its state (61% 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 (±6.2 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 Wheatfield Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Wheatfield Township, and 5 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Wheatfield Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19075 editions of the USGS map, 1907 to 1973. Watch Wheatfield Township change.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone
Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Dellville
Loshes Run
Logania
Roseglen
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
DellvilleLosh RunMecks CornerMontebelloRose Glen
Gone or out of use
Fio Forge SchoolschoolWeaverlocaleWeldons Airportairport
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Help out
Start Wheatfield Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wheatfield 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.On the map
Wheatfield Township on the map, 1907 to 1973
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Wheatfield Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1907New Bloomfield 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 Wheatfield Township.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Wheatfield Township in 1922
Passages that mention Wheatfield Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History Of Perry County, Pennsylvania1922 · page 323Read the page →
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In 1836 Wheatfield Township paid its teachers $14.25 a month. In 1838 there were eighty schools in the county, with terms ranging from three to seven months. ‘The salaries were from $15.00 to $23.00 per month. In 1840 Buffalo Township dispensed with schools altogether in order to use the funds to build schoolhouses.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
History Of Perry County, Pennsylvania1922 · page 1081Read the page →
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Pennell’s Church. During 1845 Andrew Pennell donated a plot at the corner of his farm, in Wheatfield Township, for the purpose of erecting a Methodist church. The present stone church was erected on this site, the building committee being Robert Jones, George Bruner and Andrew Pennell. Since then this pulpit has been supplied by the Duncannon Methodist pastors at intervals. The church is the property of the Duncannon congregation.
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
Wheatfield Township, 1862 to 1929
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1862Post officeThe Dellville post office opens
- 1872Post officeThe Loshes Run post office opens
- 1873Post officeThe Loshes Run post office closes
- 1875Post officeThe Logania post office opens
- 20th century
- 1904Post officeThe Dellville post office closes
- 1907
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey - 1929Post officeThe Logania post office closes
By decade
No old photos in the archives yet
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your albumOn the National Register
1 historic place in Wheatfield 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
Dellville Covered Bridge
Structures
Architectural styles listings
Burr Truss1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Wheatfield Township
Nobody well known was born in Wheatfield Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Wheatfield Township’s history
How does Wheatfield Township rank for history?
Wheatfield Township is more historic than 54% of U.S. towns, #688 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. 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 Wheatfield Township?
One place: the Dellville Covered Bridge (listed 1980).
How old are the homes in Wheatfield Township?
10% of Wheatfield 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 1982.
Memory lane
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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.