BlockAetna Township
The complete chapter on this township from An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911. 198 words, covering 1 settlement. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
1 settlementWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruthton | 1 | 23 | - | - |
Settlements in this township
1 placeEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. It is not named in the chapter: it was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
198 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Aetna Township
All the townships had now been pnt undei' local oovernment except the one in I he ii(ii1h(>ast corner. The residents of thai (erriloi'v pi<'sented a petition .Fnnc l-"i, ISSO, and the cdunty cnmmissioners (link favorable action .liily 10. The election In chiMisc' the (irsi town offieers and in selert a iiamo \vas licid at the residence conk stn\-e furnished the name. When the deliberations had reached a state where it seemed impossible to agree, the owner of the stove liappened to see the name Tro.v on the hearth, the stove having been manufactured at Troy. New York, and he was struck with the idea tliat that was a good name. The stove instrumental in supiiiying* the name of the township li'Ul -fi historv of its own. It was the first sto\'e sold bv the first dealer in Pipestone county and came from the .store of William Wheeler, of Piptstone.
of Charles LaNnllc. mi the sdutlnvcst (lUiiiter of st'ction ,v!"^, on August 14. The vote favored the name Aetna, which was suggested hv A. F. Iicvnolils in honor ol' .\etna, .lolmson. a step-daughter of Christ (;illiertson." Tiiose wlio roeeived patents til hind in Aetna township weie as lnllows :
Provenance
Text from An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.