BlockGrove Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915. 294 words, covering 1 settlement. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
2 sectionsThe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwald | 3 | 3 | 1 | - |
Settlements in this township
1 placeEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. It is named in the chapter.
The chapter
294 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915. 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.
Grove Township
Grove is situated in the northwest part of the county, and embraces township 125 north, range 33 west, and is chiefly prairie, although containing a number of oak groves with an undergrowth of hazel brush. The soil varies from a light sandy to a black loam, and is very productive. Its area is about 23,040 acres.
The first to settle in this township were Henry and Xavier Schaefers and Joseph Maly, in the fall of 1858. The Schaefers brothers took land in sections seventeen and eighteen, remained about eight years and moved to Iowa. Mr. Maly settled in sections five and eight. The population was augmented the following spring by the arrival of Henry and Herman Meyer and their widowed mother, August lilies, G. P. Steward, and Joseph Nahte. Henry Meyer located in section twenty, his brother in section nineteen, Mrs. Meyer in sections seventeen and eight, August lilies in section thirty, and G. P. Steward in section six. During the following year a considerable number of settlers arrived.
This town was organized by the county commissioners in 1867, and the first election held on the fourth of April, 1868, in the house of Peter Herbrand, then residing on section twenty-nine. The result of that election was the following officers: Supervisors, Gerhard Terhaar (chairman), Charles Pfeffer, and John Prinnis; clerk, James Duncan; and treasurer, Barney Schwieters.
Meire Grove Village
Meire Grove is a village of some two hundred inhabitants located in Grove township. Its history appears more fully in this volume in the biographies of the pioneers who settled in this vicinity. The railroad point is Greenwald on the "Soo" line. Meire Grove has a Catholic church, a hotel, a creamery, and a brick yard. The postoffice is now discontinued, and mail is received by rural route.
Provenance
Text from History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915, 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.