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History · Alborn Township

Alborn Township’s post office opened in 1900, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Alborn Township began

When was Alborn Township founded?

1900

The Alborn Township post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Hemlock (1911) and Prosit (1916), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 425126 years
Founding year: the first Alborn Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Alborn 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 Alborn Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Alborn Township, and 5 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Alborn Township’s history is told.

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Places that used to be

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

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Alborn
1900–today
Hemlock
1911–1912
Prosit
1916–1966
19001960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AlbornBadenColeraine JunctionManeyProsit
Gone or out of use
Hemlock Post Officepost officeProsit Post Officepost officeProsit Stationlocale
1cemetery inside Alborn Township
Spruce Hill

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Alborn Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Alborn Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Alborn ( AL-bərn) is an unincorporated community in Alborn Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The community of Alborn is located 29 miles northwest of the city of Duluth; and five miles west of U.S. 53 at Independence. Nearby places include Prosit, Culver, Burnett, Brookston, and Independence. The center of Alborn is generally considered at the junction of Saint Louis County Highway 7 (CR 7) and County Highway 47 (CR 47); located in the eastern portion of Alborn Township (population 460). The Artichoke River flows through the community.

Its first post office opened in 1900. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 460 to 425 (-8%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Alborn Township, 1900 to 1966

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1900Post officeThe Alborn post office opens
  3. 1911Post officeThe Hemlock post office opens
  4. 1912Post officeThe Hemlock post office closes
  5. 1916Post officeThe Prosit post office opens
  6. 1966Post officeThe Prosit post office closes
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No old photos in the archives yet

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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Famous people

Famous people close to Alborn Township

Nobody well known was born in Alborn Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Jessica LangeAmerican actress · b. 1949
Barbara PaytonAmerican actress · b. 1927
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Derek PlanteAmerican ice hockey player · b. 1971
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Corey MillenAmerican ice hockey player · b. 1964
Katharine LuomalaAmerican anthropologist · b. 1907
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

New Independence TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNess TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMeadowlands Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCulver TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Alborn Township’s history

What year was Alborn Township founded?

The Alborn Township post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 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.