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History · Maquon Township

Maquon Township’s post office opened in 1837, and 51% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Maquon Township began

When was Maquon Township founded?

1837

The Maquon Township post office opened in 1837, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Rapatee (1883), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 446189 years
Founding year: the first Maquon Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Maquon Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Maquon Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Maquon Township’s homes were built before 1938.Deep rootsA post office since 1837: 189 years of Maquon Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Maquon Township’s history is told.

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The story

How Maquon Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Maquon Township.

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The village was platted by Pernach Owen and Elisha Thurman in 1837 under the name Bennington, likely from Bennington, Vermont. In 1858 its name was changed to Maquon.

Oral reports by residents referred to a nineteenth-century battle between the Potawatomi and "white settlers" at Haw Creek Township, northeast from the center of Maquon. The Potawatomi were forced away from Maquon.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Rapatee, opened and closed inside today’s town.

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Bennington SchoolschoolClearfield SchoolschoolFoster SchoolschoolFruit Hill SchoolschoolHazel Dell SchoolschoolMcGirr SchoolschoolOakland Schoolschool
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Maquon Township
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Fairview TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townChestnut TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSalem TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHaw Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Maquon Township’s history

What year was Maquon Township founded?

The Maquon Township post office opened in 1837, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikipedia, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.