According to the 2010 Census, there are 690 Blaine Township residents.

Blaine Township is a rural community that consists mostly of State Game Lands and farm land. Blaine Township does have an American Legion, a Post Office and a volunteer fire department. Blaine Township also has a beautiful Community Park with a new pavilion and swingsets, slides, playsets and three ballfields where you can see the Mens Softball teams practicing and playing their games and tournaments.

The Taylorstown Historical District covers the built environment of the orginal village plot (laid out in 1795) with lots situated on both sides of Main Street which runs ESE to WSW from the creek to a dead end at the hill. Primarily residental in character, the village strongly reflects its orginal roadside orientation and lot pattern. The buildings are streetdide structures fronting on Main Street with a small number fronting on Front and Second Street. There are two churches, a volunteer Fire Department, an American Legion, a post office and a Municipal Building. All buildings are presently occupied and are maintained in good condition.

Yes, Blaine Township, Taylorstown, has served since its inception as the main point of supply for the middle portion of the Buffallo Creek Watershed (through which the streams of the central section of western Washington County – between Rt. 844 and Rt. 70 – flow westward into the Ohio River.

Yes, the National Pike is about 2 miles South of Blaine Township, Taylorstown. The National Pike helped stabilize the business interests of the tiny town without changing the remoter and distinct town plan.

Yes, Taylorstown, which is part of the Buffalo Creed Watershed, has 51 active Great-Blue Heron nests contained in two seperate rookeries, large populations of Cerulean Warblers, Louisiana Waterthrushes, Acadian Flycatchers & Yellow-throated Warblers. Overall, it is the home to over 100 IBA/BBS species of birds during the breeding season and is a stopover area for many other species of neo-tropical migrants in the spring.

11.9 sq mi (31 km2)

Township Road Miles = 3.07 miles

State Road Miles = 19.69 miles

Total = 22.76 miles

Taylorstown is a rural village in Western Washington County, Pennsylvania which retains is orginal size and scale as set forth in its 1795 town plan, and has a farly intact architectural fabric made up of buildings from several different architectural periods.

The early buildings in the Historic District were clapboard covered log buildings two stories high with frame additions. There are several early brick buildings in the Federal or Farm Style. These buildings were brought on by the oil discoveries and the development of the Taylorstown oil field. These buildings included a general store, a dry goods store, a church, a hatter’s shop, a tavern/hotel (which was destroyed by fire in the late 1800’s), a blacksmith’s shop and livery, a water-powered grain mill on Buffalo Creek, a small panning-mill, and the Wilson Chair Shop ( a tiny woodworking shop that has since been moved to Meadowcroft Village in Avella).

The Taylorstown Post Office was established on June 1, 1831 and was operated from the rear of the General Store. Today it is across the street from what was once a General Store. It is now currently in it’s own building.

In the 1800’s, the discovery of oil made Taylorstown synonymous in Western Washington County. The first well, McManus No. 1, was struck in July 1885 about a half a mile north of the village and produced about 51 barrels a day. This also boosted and stabilized the town, again without radically changing its character. This is what made Taylorstown the most prosperous town in Washington County. Oil remains a minor industry for the area around Taylorstown today.

One of the most notable people to live in Taylorstown was David Williamson. He relocated here in 1773. He was a true frontiersman with a military career spanning over 20 years. He fought the Shawnee in Dunmore’s War in the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774, was the colonel in the 1rst Moravian Campaign to the Muskingum River towns in Ohio, and in 1782 lead the famous Gnadenhutten Massacre of Christian Delaware Native Americans. Later in life he faced great difficulty. He was elected sheriff of Washington County in 1787. Between 1790 & 1805, Williamson was in court for debt over two dozen times. He died in jail in 1809, after which he was buried with full military honors in the Washington County Cemetery.

There were two forts located in Blaine Township, Taylorstown between 1775-1783 during the Revolutionary War.

The first fort was called Williamstown Station (1775), located in Blaine Township approximately 4 miles north of Taylorstown on Camp Buffalo Road. This fort consisted of a triple log cabin structure and a springhouse. Lt. Colonel David Williamson owned this fort, along with 376 acres.

The second fort was called Taylor’s Fort (1779), located in Blaine Township about 1.5 miles north of Taylorstown on State Road 221. This fort overlooked Buffalo Creek and was adjacent to Walker Hill Bridge. Robert Taylor, a captain in the Pennsylvania militia, owned 331 acres adjacent to the fort side, which is the present day location of the village of Taylorstown.

Taylorstown was founded in 1795 when a tract of land, granted to Robert Taylor on March 5, 1788, was sold by him to his son William Taylor. William immediately engaged surveyor David Heaton to lay out a town plot containing 66 lots each measuring 60′ x 264′. The town was originally named New Brunswick; however, because the proprietor was William Taylor, the people called the settlement Taylorstown. In 1807 the name New Brunswick was dropped and the name Taylorstown officially adopted. Taylorstown is one of about ten town plans laid out in Washington County before 1800. Of these, it is the only one which has never outgrown its original plan, and which retains its distinctive nineteenth century rural village architecture.

YES! It was the central village of Buffalo Township until the land northwest of Taylorstown (including Taylorstown) broke away as Blaine Township in November 1894.