About Adams Township Adams Township is a combination of two townships Middles Township and the eastern section of Cranberry Township. Both of these were original townships established in Butler County in 1804. Adams Township was created in 1854 and was 15,000 acres of land, 5 miles by 5 miles on all four sides. A wooded area that bordered by Breakneck Creek along the north and south, the first clearing of the wooded land was for agriculture. There were also a few saw mills and tanneries. Settlers actually began settling in Adams Township in 1796 long before it was an established township. The area was named for President John Quincy Adams and the early settlement was due to the Depreciation Lands Act of 1783, passed by Congress authorizing land grants to veterans of the Revolutionary War. The year 1878 saw the Pittsburgh and Western railroad’s construction of track along Breakneck Creek. This spurred development and soon Valencia, Callery and Mars were three communities that were for