When Boggs Township formed in 1838, its residents included the Adams, Beers, Benehoofs, Bushes, Gearharts, Gosses, Grays, Haneys, Hesses, Hummels, Kepharts, Litzes, Lumadues, Millers, Peters, Shaws, Shimmels, Smeals, Stones, Turners, Williams, Wilsons, and Wisors families. Built along the 1796 State Road that followed an Indian path, Salem Church, erected in 1848, and the Waple log house are among the county's oldest structures.