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History · Grove Park-Tilden Township

20% of Grove Park-Tilden Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1966 on.

0on the National Register
20%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Grove Park-Tilden 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 Grove Park-Tilden Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Grove Park-Tilden Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Grove Park-Tilden Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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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.

Tilden
1883–1893
Dugdale
1884–1927
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
DugdaleTilden Junction
Gone or out of use
Dugdale Post Officepost officeTilden Post Officepost office
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Grove Park-Tilden Township
Faith LutheranFirst English LutheranHitterdalLakesideRosehillSaint Lawrence Catholic

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

The story

How Grove Park-Tilden Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Grove Park-Tilden Township.

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Grove Park-Tilden township was formed in 1992 from the merger of Grove Park Township and Tilden Township. Grove Township was organized in 1880. Tilden Township was organized in 1882, and named for Samuel J. Tilden (1814–1886), candidate for President of the United States in 1876.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Grove Park-Tilden Township, 1883 to 1966

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1883Post officeThe Tilden post office opens
  3. 1884Post officeThe Dugdale post office opens
  4. 1893Post officeThe Tilden post office closes
  5. 20th century
  6. 1927Post officeThe Dugdale post office closes
  7. 1966On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

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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On the map

Grove Park-Tilden Township on the map, 1966 to 1984

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Grove Park-Tilden Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Grove Park-Tilden Township on the 1966 USGS mapGrove Park-Tilden Township on the 1984 USGS map1966Mentor 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 Grove Park-Tilden Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Grove Park-Tilden Township

Nobody well known was born in Grove Park-Tilden Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Jan NarvesonCanadian philosopher · b. 1936
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Arlo BrunsbergAmerican baseball player · b. 1940
Lorie Skjerven GildeaAmerican judge · b. 1961
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Adrian BarilAmerican football player · b. 1898
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Hector Ames HansonAmerican politician – Minnesota -House 1941-44 … · b. 1904
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Woodside TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBadger TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGodfrey TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTerrebonne TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townKertsonville TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLake Pleasant TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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, 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.