Worcester Township’s post office opened in 1830, and 2 of its places are on the National Register
More historic than 68% of U.S. towns · #506 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
Most of Worcester Township was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1993. Its Register listings are the Peter Wentz Homestead and the Anthony Morris House. Below: maps from 1894 on.
The Worcester Township post office opened in 1830, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Centre Point (1826) and Fairview Village (1849), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 10,317196 years
How historic is Worcester Township?
B+
More historic than 68% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Worcester Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Worcester Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Worcester Township is more historic than 68% of U.S. towns, #506 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
B+
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Worcester Township’s overall grade.
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 Worcester Township’s 3.7 sits near the middle of its state (63% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 4 historic buildings outnumber those of 68% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from B− to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±3.6 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). 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 Worcester Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Joe D AirportairportPeter Wentz FarmsteadlocaleRussell-Saylor Airportairport
9cemeteries and burying grounds inside Worcester Township
Berks RoadBethel Hill Methodist Episcopal ChurchCentral Schwenkfelder Garden Of MemoriesEvangelical CongregationHeebner FamilyMethacton MennoniteWagnerWentz United Church of ChristWorcester Schwenkfelder
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Help out
Start Worcester Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Worcester 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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Worcester Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1894Norristown 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 Worcester Township.
The story so far
Worcester Township, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Worcester Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Worcester (also known as Center Point) is an unincorporated community in Worcester Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. Worcester is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 73 and Pennsylvania Route 363. The area is drained by the Zacharias Creek westward into the Skippack Creek, a tributary of the Perkiomen Creek. The community is served by the Methacton School District.
Its first post office opened in 1830. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 9,750 to 10,317 (+6%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Worcester Township, 1717 to 1964
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
The Worcester Township post office opened in 1830, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Worcester Township rank for history?
Worcester Township is more historic than 68% of U.S. towns, #506 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 Worcester Township?
Two places: the Peter Wentz Homestead (listed 1973) and the Anthony Morris House (1980).
How old are the homes in Worcester Township?
8% of Worcester Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.6 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1993.
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 (2), 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.
