Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
5 places in town are on the National Register, among them the Taliesin, a National Historic Landmark, and a historic district with 5 buildings. Below: maps from 1905 on and old-book passages.
The Wyoming post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Hillside (1889), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wyoming’s history is told.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. One is a National Historic Landmark, the highest tier.
★ Landmark
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Wyoming. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Wyoming.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Wyoming yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Its first post office opened in 1849. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 302 to 317 (+5%).
Passages that mention Wyoming, cut from the printed page as they were published.
nia Coal Company in Pennsylvania, and served in that capacity uninterruptedly until his death. In November, 1882. he was elected to the presidency of the Erie & Wyoming Valley Railroad Company, ami in this position he also served to the end of his life. A notable incident of his connection with railroad affairs was his designing a threecylinder locomotive engine, which he covered by
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Company, and many other local business interests. He was. during its construction, president of the Ontario. Carboiidale and Scranton Railroad ( now the Wyoming division of the Ontario and Western Railroad), president of the proposed New York. Wyoming and Western Railroad: also, of the Scranton Coal Company: and a dire tor in the New York. On-
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miller at Seneca Falls for one year, and later went to Oswego, where he followed the same vocation for six years. In 1844 he came to Wyoming County, and purchased fifty acres of land in the town of Perry. He has rapidly increased his landed property, and to-day is the possessor of one of the finest farms in Wyoming County. He now lives in retire-
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necticut, March 29, 1779, continued the hotel business at Shaftsbury for forty years, during which time he made frequent trips to Cayuga and Wyoming Counties in this State, assisting the early pioneers in moving their families to their new homes. While here in 1810 he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land where the village of Wyoming is now
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
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On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in Wyoming itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Wyoming had its own post office from 1849 to 1919. Another post office, Hillside, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Wyoming post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
5 listings: 3 buildings, 1 historic district, the Taliesin, with 5 contributing buildings, and 1 structure. 9 historic buildings in all.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 (5), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
