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History · Ashford

Ashford’s post office opened in 1894, and 10% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Ashford House and the Peter L. and Emma Hershey Homestead.

1894first post office
2on the National Register
10%homes built before 1940
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How Ashford began

When was Ashford founded?

1894

The Ashford post office opened in 1894, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 303132 years
Founding year: the first Ashford post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
On the National Register

2 historic places in Ashford

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
1984
Ashford House
Ashford House, built 1903Peter L. and Emma Hershey Homestead
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Colonial Revival1
Log Cabin1
Ashford HouseColonial Revival · Built 1903
All 2 listings
Peter L. and Emma Hershey HomesteadBuilding · listed 2007

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

Places that used to be

Places now gone

Ashford’s post office has been open since 1894.

Gone or out of use
Hewitt Landing Stripairport

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Ashford’s history

What year was Ashford founded?

The Ashford post office opened in 1894, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Ashford?

Two places: the Ashford House (listed 1984) and the Peter L. and Emma Hershey Homestead (2007).

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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.