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History · Grover

Half of Grover’s homes were built after 1980

Most of Grover was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1980. Below: maps from 1969 on.

0on the National Register
7%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Grover’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 Grover are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Grover’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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The story

How Grover came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Grover.

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The two six mile squares that would become Grover were first surveyed in the summer of 1847 by a crew working for the U.S. government. Then in the winter of 1857 and 1858 another crew marked all the section corners in the township, walking through the woods and over frozen swamps, measuring with chain and compass. When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general description of the six mile square north of Perkinstown:

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Grover, 1891 to 1969

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1891Post officeThe Perkinstown post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1951Post officeThe Perkinstown post office closes
  5. 1969On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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 map

Grover on the map, 1969 to 2005

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

Grover on the 1969 USGS mapGrover on the 2005 USGS map1969Lublin NW sheet · 1:24,000

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Grover

Nobody well known was born in Grover itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Jeane DixonAmerican astrologer and psychic · b. 1904
Jack PerkinsActor · b. 1921
Andy NorthAmerican golfer, PGA Tour member, U.S. Open cha… · b. 1950
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Gary ReinekeCanadian actor · b. 1940
Dale LewisAmerican professional and amateur wrestler · b. 1933
Erny PinckertAmerican football player · b. 1907
Places that used to be

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

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Perkinstown
Gone or out of use
Lakeview SchoolschoolSawyer Dam Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Grover
Perkinstown

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.

HammelIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townClevelandIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMolitorIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFordIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMaplehurstIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWestboro1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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 Wikipedia, 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.