The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusDickinson Township is a township in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,300 at the 2020 census, up from 5,223 at the 2010 census.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 5,223 people in 2010, 5,294 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1989.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Dickinson 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 Dickinson’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dickinson’s history is told.
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Dickinson, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Dickinson is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Dickinson has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Givin, Amelia S., Free Library in Mount Holly Springs, 4.3 miles away.
Dickinson and the nearest listed places
Closest to Dickinson
Givin, Amelia S., Free LibraryMount Holly Springs · Late Victorian · Built 18894.3mi
Pine Grove FurnaceCooke · Italianate4.7miMount Tabor AME Zion Church and CemeterySouth Middleton · Building5mi
James Given TavernSouth Middleton · Building6.6mi
Cline's Church of the United Brethren in ChristMenallen · Federal6.7miHow 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 (5). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.