BlockTroy Township
The complete chapter on this township from An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911. 202 words, covering 2 settlements. 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
2 settlementsWhat 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.
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. None of the 2 is named in the chapter: they were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
202 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.
Troy Township
gested pertained to some particul.'ir nationality. No such name could be agreed upon. At length Mr. O'Connell announced that he would propose a, name that would be t>road and general enough to satisfy all nationalities and all interests, and when he jn-oposed Kden tile suggestion readily found fa\or with the asseinl>led settlers. And so the t«»wnslilp came to be called lOden." - Pipestone County Star, December 2S, lilOC.
'"Tile moc'lins was Vield in Mr. \V)iig:im's Ititchen. and among those present were Major E. A. Rice. F. I,. Planlf. L. R. Oiwr. O. T. Gilson. John Haynes. D. R. Woodman, Al. Woodman and Mr. Wliigam. Considerable difficulty was eneountered in malting the selection, each one present suggesting a name after 1 some one of his famil.v or his old home in tlie I east, and each name was re.jeeted. Tlie meet- ! ing was deadlocked until the nimie 'I'roy was suggested b.v Mr. Whigam. That name was adopted hy unanimous vote; Mr. Whigam's pcireited at the first (own incctini;, held at the home of (leoroc Hill on section 11 eailv in March. Tiie name was selected hy hallot at that time. Land patents were granted to early settlers of Altona township as follows:
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.