BlockLuxemburg Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915. 216 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Nicholas | - | - | 3 | - |
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
216 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.
Luxemburg Township
This town lies in the southern part of the county, and has an area of 23,040 acres. There is a considerable acreage of swamp land, and a number of small lakes.. The soil varies from a dark to a clayey loam with a clay subsoil.
The first settler in this town was Nicholas Post who come in 1861, and settled on section sixteen. He was followed during the same year by Paul Ryezck, Thomas Wirtzfeld, Cornelius Lutzen, Peter Weiler, and John Schrifels.
' The town was organized in 1866, having been a part of Wakefield prior to that time. The first supervisors were: Nicholas Post (chairman), C. Lutzen and Nicholas Maurin. The clerk was John Loesch. The town was named by Mr. Post in honor of his pirthplace in Germany.
The first school was taught in 1867. A German Catholic church on section two v/as erected in 1859. A postoffice was established near the church in 1878 with John P. Schmidt as the postmaster.
St Nicholas is a discontinued postoflfice, five miles north of Watkins, on the "Soo" line, the banking and shipping point. Mail is received by R. F. D. from Watkins, Meeker county. Golden Rule Creamery, Frank Enderle, manager; Carl P. Ingersoll, creamery; Leither Bros., meats; Jno. Lutgen, general store; Peter Wirtzfeld, general store.
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.