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History · Pleasant Township

88% of Pleasant Township’s homes were built before 1940

1 place in town is on the National Register, among them a historic district with 1 buildings. Below: maps from 1897 on.

1on the National Register
88%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Pleasant 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 Pleasant Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18974 editions of the USGS map, 1897 to 1985. Watch Pleasant Township change.Old housesHalf of Pleasant Township’s homes were built before 1938.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pleasant Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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On the map

Pleasant Township on the map, 1897 to 1985

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

Pleasant Township on the 1897 USGS mapPleasant Township on the 1900 USGS mapPleasant Township on the 1968 USGS mapPleasant Township on the 1985 USGS map1897Canton sheet · 1:125,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Pleasant Township.

The story so far

Pleasant Township, in brief

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

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 323 to 286 (-11%).

Timeline

Pleasant Township, 1875 to 1897

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1875Post officeThe Silver Lake post office opens
  3. 1887Post officeThe Silver Lake post office closes
  4. 1897On 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 National Register

1 historic place in Pleasant 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
2004
Mathias Schmid Farm
Mathias Schmid Farm
Districts

Architectural styles listings

Bank Barn1
All 1 listings
Mathias Schmid FarmDistrict · 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, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Gone or out of use
School Number 10schoolSilver Lakelocale
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Pleasant Township
BethesdaNazareth

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.

Beresford4 historic placesB+Prairie TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLincoln TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNorway Township3 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBrooklyn Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Pleasant Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Pleasant Township?

One place: the Mathias Schmid Farm (listed 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 (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.