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History · Custer Township

30% of Custer Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Margaret and Vernon Maxon House and the McMonies Barn.

2on the National Register
30%homes built before 1940
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On the National Register

2 historic places in Custer Township

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

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1999
Margaret and Vernon Maxon House
Margaret and Vernon Maxon House, built 1950McMonies Barn, built 1915
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Lustron Prefabricated Metal1
Feeder Barn1
Margaret and Vernon Maxon HouseLustron Prefabricated Metal · Built 1950
All 2 listings
McMonies BarnBuilding · listed 2004

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

Places that used to be

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

Another post office, Medas, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Morningside
Gone or out of use
Medaslocale
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Custer Township
IdealRiversideSaint Martin

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.

Huron9 historic placesA−MorningsideIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townClifton TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townValley TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townClyde TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRichland Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Custer Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Custer Township?

Two places: the Margaret and Vernon Maxon House (listed 1999) and the McMonies Barn (2004).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 (2), 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.