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History · Apollo

A history of Apollo,
since 1790

Postcards, papers and photographs of Apollo from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.

1790established
13old images & papers
1historic places
11recent photos
From Apollo’s archive · credits on each photo

The story

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The area was sectioned in 1769, following the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, as a farm known as "Warren's Sleeping Place", named after a Native American trader from the area named Edward Warren. It was soon surveyed and divided into lots, with the town of Warren officially being added to the Greensburg register on November 9, 1816. The log cabin home of the Drake family still stands in the area, and is one of the oldest buildings in Armstrong County.

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Timeline

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1790Established
18501940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions -…Commons
1880s2 items · 1940 Census Enumeration District Maps…Commons
1890s5 items · Apollo PA BEye view 1896Commons
1900s4 items · Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Apoll…Map
1915Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Apollo, Armstro…Map
1920–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old view1940 Census Enumeration District …, 1850: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

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CSC. Doyle SteelePolitics & LawRHRyan HemphillSportsGGGlen Allen GrubbsBusinessJGJoe GasparellaSportsRHRuth HunterNotable
By decade

Apollo, decade by decade

1850s1 item
1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Pennsylvania - Armstrong County - ED 3-1, ED 3-2, ED 3-3, ED 3-4Commons1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Pennsylvani…1850
1880s2 items
1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Pennsylvania - Armstrong County - Apollo - ED 3-1, ED 3-2, ED 3-3, ED 3-4Commons1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Pennsylvania - Arms…18801940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Pennsylvania - Armstrong County - Kiskiminetas - ED 3-32, ED 3-33Commons1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Pennsylvania - Arms…1880
1890s5 items
Apollo PA BEye view 1896CommonsApollo PA BEye view 18961896Apollo, Armstrong County Pennsylvania., 1896CommonsApollo, Armstrong County Pennsylvania., 18961896Apollo, Armstrong County Pennsylvania., 1896CommonsApollo, Armstrong County Pennsylvania., 18961896Apollo, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania 1896CommonsApollo, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania 18961896Apollo, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania 1896CommonsApollo, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania 18961896
1900s4 items
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Apollo, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, 1904, Plate 0001MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Apollo, Armstrong County, P…1904Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Apollo, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, 1904, Plate 0002MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Apollo, Armstrong County, P…1904Apollo, PaCommonsApollo, Pa1909Apollo, PaLOCApollo, Pa1909
1910s1 paper
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Apollo, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, 1915, Plate 0003MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Apollo, Armstrong County, P…1915
1920s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today11 photos
Bee 01CommonsBee 012013Apollo, PennsylvaniaCommonsApollo, Pennsylvania2010Apollo, PennsylvaniaCommonsApollo, Pennsylvania2010Apollo, PennsylvaniaCommonsApollo, Pennsylvania2010Apollo, PennsylvaniaCommonsApollo, Pennsylvania2010Apollo, PennsylvaniaCommonsApollo, Pennsylvania2010Apollo, PennsylvaniaCommonsApollo, Pennsylvania2010Apollo, PennsylvaniaCommonsApollo, Pennsylvania2010Apollo, PennsylvaniaCommonsApollo, Pennsylvania2010Apollo, PennsylvaniaCommonsApollo, Pennsylvania2010Apollo, PennsylvaniaCommonsApollo, Pennsylvania2010
National Register of Historic Places

1 historic place in Apollo

1 place in Apollo is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

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In Pennsylvaniaby listings · most towns there have none
1place listed1 building
0National Historic LandmarksNone here yet
1historic building protectedcounting each building in a district
1983first listedDrake Log Cabin

Where they are

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Drake Log Cabin
Buildings

When they were listed

The Register began in 1966.
Listed 1983Drake Log CabinBuildingExploration/SettlementArchitecture
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places (05/22/2026) · styles from the National Archives catalog · photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as 1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Pennsylvania - Armstrong County - ED 3-1, ED 3-2, ED 3-3, ED 3-4 (1850) and it appears here side by side.

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