The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusHarrison Township is one of the fourteen townships of Perry County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 5,145 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 5,253 to 5,145 (-2%). Half of its homes were built before 1962.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Harrison yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Harrison’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Harrison’s history is told.
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Harrison, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Harrison is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Harrison has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is West School in Crooksville, 0.3 miles away.
Harrison and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.