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History · Wood Township

Wood Township’s post office opened in 1903, and 39% of its homes were built before 1940

1 place in town is on the National Register, among them a historic district with 102 buildings. Below: maps from 1930 on.

1903first post office
1on the National Register
39%homes built before 1940
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How Wood Township began

When was Wood Township founded?

1903

The Wood Township post office opened in 1903, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 612123 years
Founding year: the first Wood Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Wood 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 Wood Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.A historic districtThe Robertsdale Historic District takes in 102 historic buildings.Old housesHalf of Wood Township’s homes were built before 1963.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wood 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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On the National Register

1 listing protects 102 historic buildings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
102
each building in a district counts
first listed
1992
Robertsdale Historic District
Robertsdale Historic District, built 1873
Districts
Robertsdale Historic DistrictBuilt 1873

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

The story so far

Wood Township, in brief

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

Wood is an unincorporated community in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania; portions of the community lie in Bedford, Fulton, and Huntingdon counties. The community is 2.4 miles (3.9 km) south of Broad Top City. Wood has a post office with ZIP code 16694, which opened on September 9, 1908.

Its first post office opened in 1903. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 708 to 612 (-14%).

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

Timeline

Wood Township, 1873 to 1930

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1873BuiltRobertsdale Historic District is built
  3. 1875Post officeThe Robertsdale post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1903Post officeThe Wood post office opens
  6. 1930On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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.

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On the map

Wood Township on the map, 1930 to 1994

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

Wood Township on the 1930 USGS mapWood Township on the 1968 USGS mapWood Township on the 1973 USGS mapWood Township on the 1994 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 Wood Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Wood Township

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

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Sandra FlukeAmerican women's rights activist and lawyer · b. 1981
George M. ChilcottAmerican politician · b. 1828
Robert E. EvansAmerican politician · b. 1856
James Monroe MillerAmerican politician (Republican) · b. 1852
Robert Milton SpeerAmerican politician · b. 1838
Places that used to be

Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.

Robertsdale
1875–today
Wood
1903–today
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
RobertsdaleWood
Gone or out of use
Pine Grove Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Wood Township
Robertsdale ItalianSaint Michaels

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.

Clay TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCarbon Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWells TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTodd Township3 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBroad Top CityIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Wood Township’s history

What year was Wood Township founded?

The Wood Township post office opened in 1903, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Wood Township?

One place: the Robertsdale Historic District (listed 1992).

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). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.