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History · Liberty Township

Liberty Township’s post office opened in 1884, and 100% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 07-268-030.

1884first post office
1on the National Register
100%homes built before 1940
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How Liberty Township began

When was Liberty Township founded?

1884

The Liberty Township post office opened in 1884, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Liberty (1884) and Savo (1893), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 64142 years
Founding year: the first Liberty Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
On the National Register

1 historic place in Liberty 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
2000
South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No.…
South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 07-268-030
Structures

Architectural styles listings

Pratt pony truss1
South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 07-268-030Pratt pony truss

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, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Liberty
1884–1887
Savo
1893–1915
18801950today
Gone or out of use
Savo Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Liberty Township
Peace Lutheran

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.

Hecla TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSavo Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGreenfield TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLansing TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Liberty Township’s history

What year was Liberty Township founded?

The Liberty Township post office opened in 1884, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Liberty Township?

One place: the South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 07-268-030 (listed 2000).

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), 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.