As created by the court, Rye Township included the area of itself, Penn Township, Wheatfield Township, Miller Township, Oliver Township, Juniata Township, Tuscarora Township and parts of Centre and Carroll Townships. It is believed that Rye Township was so named for the fields of rye grown throughout the Township and some say for the rye whiskey made from this grain. Tuskarora about William Noble’s be the line, and the name of the Lower West’s, and from that Darlington’s and to Strack the Ordered by said court, that from the North Mountain to the Tuskarora “Upon petition of several of the inhabitants of Tyrone Township to thisĬourt, setting forth that Said Township is too large, it is adjudged and Below is the order issued by the court on March 25, 1766: At the January 1766 session of the Court of Cumberland County held in Carlisle, a petition was presented asking for the erection of a new township out of the lower end of Tyrone.
The area associated with the “southeastern” quadrant of current day Perry County was known in 1766 as Tyrone Township, Cumberland County. Rye is actually older than Perry County, which was formed in 1820. Created in 1766, Rye Township is the third oldest Township in Perry County. Rye Township celebrated its 250th Anniversary in 2016.
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