On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Greenway Township is more historic than 83% of U.S. towns. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Greenway Township’s overall grade.
Minnesota towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Minnesota town has 2.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Greenway Township’s 19.6 sits above most of its state (84% of Minnesota towns have fewer) while its 4 historic buildings outnumber those of 68% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±4.7 points).
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Greenway Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone
Another post office, Cort, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Calumet
1908–today
Cort
1908–1909
Marble
1908–today
Pengilly
1915–today
19001960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
CalumetCortJurgensonKevinMarblePengillySilverwoodTwin Lake Trails Mobile Home Park
Gone or out of use
Barbara MinemineCort Post Officepost officeDraper Annex MinemineGross -Marble MinemineHelen MinemineHill -Annex MinemineHill Trumbull MinemineKevin MinemineLangdom MinemineMajorca MineminePatrick Annex MineminePatrick MinemineSnyder MinemineSouth Ann MinemineSullivan MinemineWest Patrick Minemine
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The story so far
Greenway Township, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Greenway Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Greenway Township is a township in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,788 at the 2020 census. Greenway Township was named for John Campbell Greenway, a businessman in the mining industry.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,939 to 1,788 (-8%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Greenway Township, 1908 to 1988
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Greenway Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1952Calumet sheet · 1:24,000
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Greenway Township.
On the National Register
2 historic places in Greenway Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Greenway Township is more historic than 83% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Greenway Township?
Two places: the Oliver Boarding House (listed 1982) and the Hill Annex Mine (1986).
How old are the homes in Greenway Township?
18% of Greenway Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.7 points), against a typical 8.1% for a Minnesota town; the median home was built in 1958.
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).
From the National Register of Historic Places (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
