Freeport’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Freeport. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusFreeport Township is a township in Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 269 at the 2020 census. In June 2025 the township's Board of Supervisors declared a "disaster emergency" which allows it to seek state and federal funds to install a water system after residents complained that their water had been contaminated for over three years, believed to be caused by fracking. Neighboring Springhill Township followed with a similar declaration in August 2025.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 310 to 269 (-13%). Half of its homes were built before 1973.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Freeport 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.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Freeport’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Freeport’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewNew Freeport Cornet Band New, c. 1900: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Freeport, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as New Freeport Cornet Band New (c. 1900) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.