BlockLake George Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915. 268 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elrosa | 2 | 8 | - | - |
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
268 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.
Lake George Township
ship 124 north, range 34 west. The lake from which the town derives its name is located In the southeast part; it is about two miles long, and varies from sixty to one hundred and sixty rods in width. The soil of the township is a black loam with a clay sub-soil, and is very productive. Its area is 23,040 acres.
The honor of being the first settler in this township belongs to Gerhard Stalboerger. He is a native of Germany, came to America in 1852, and after remaining a short time in Iowa, came to Minnesota and settled in 1856. John Felling followed the same summer and took a claim on section twenty-four. Others soon followed.
The territory now embraced in Lake George township was a part of Verdale on its organization in 1858. It subsequently became a part of St. Martin, and later, of Spring Hill. Its present organization was effected in 1877, and the first election held at the house of Michael Collins on section eleven. The first officers were: Supervisors, Gerhard Stalboerger, chairman, Mathias Schneider and Thomas Wilson; clerk, Michael Collins; treasurer, Mathias Weber; and constable, Peter Kuffler; thirteen votes were cast.
The first marriage in the town was in 1857, the parties being Gerhard Stalboerger and Anna Mayer. Their eldest child v.as the first birth in the town, in the fall of 1859, and was also the first death, the infant dying at the age of three months. The first school was taught by Katie Mary Frank about 1868. District number sixtytwo was organized in 1869, the school house built in section twenty-four.
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.