[2] Sipesville has a post office, with ZIP code 15561, which opened on April 9, 1851;[3][4] Levi Hoffman was the first postmaster.

[5] By early 1860, under the leadership of Postmaster Peter Sipe, mail between Somerset and Johnstown was being delivered three times per week through Sipesville.

[8] By 1877, The Somerset Herald was describing the town as a "peaceful hamlet" and "city set on a hill, where dogs never fight, street cars never collide, thieves do not break through and stear, and people never dye" [sic].

Sipe ... supplies this vicinity with everything a first-class merchant deals in," that "Michael Sipe ... survived the exciting campaign of '76," that the town now had its own public school, that the Casebeer Church, which was located roughly two miles south of the community, was being improved at a cost of $1,000, that multiple new houses were being built, and that chestnut harvests were plentiful that year.

[12] On April 1, 1885, the Sipesville School reported an average monthly attendance of roughly between twenty-seven and thirty-four students.