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Hauge Lutheran ChurchHauge Lutheran Church · Photo: McGhiever · CC BY-SA 3.0
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History · Kenyon Township

50% of Kenyon Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Hauge Lutheran Church. Below: 2 old photos and papers from 1920 on.

1on the National Register
50%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
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From Kenyon Township’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Kenyon 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 writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Kenyon Township’s homes were built before 1940.
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Start Kenyon Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Kenyon Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
2 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old view34. De Laval Whey Separator: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Kenyon Township, in brief

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

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 393 in 2010, 388 in 2020.

Timeline

Kenyon Township, 1879 to 1962

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1879Post officeThe Skyberg post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1920In the archive34. De Laval Whey Separator
  5. 1951Post officeThe Skyberg post office closes
  6. 1962In the archiveCGW 115A with Train 43 at Kenyon, MN on August 31, 1962
By decade

Kenyon Township, decade by decade

2 decades in the archive, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1920s1 item
34. De Laval Whey Separator192034. De Laval Whey Separator
1930s–1950snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
1960s1 item
CGW 115A with Train 43 at Kenyon, MN on August 31, 19621962CGW 115A with Train 43 at Kenyon, MN on August 31, 19…
1970s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Today2 recent
Kenyon, Minnesota 92010Kenyon, Minnesota 9MNMap-doton-Kenyon2005MNMap-doton-Kenyon
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

34. De Laval Whey Separator
Retake this view34. De Laval Whey Separator, 1920

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Kenyon Township’s page.

Retake this view · +15
On the National Register

1 historic place in Kenyon Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1980
Hauge Lutheran Church
Hauge Lutheran Church
Buildings
Hauge Lutheran ChurchBuilding

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

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

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Skyberg
Gone or out of use
SkyberglocaleSkyberg Post Officepost office
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Kenyon Township
HaugeHegre ChurchNorwegian Lutheran

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.

Kenyon1 historic placeB+Richland TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHolden Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCherry Grove Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Kenyon Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Kenyon Township?

One place: the Hauge Lutheran Church (listed 1980).

Memory lane

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

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Sources

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 Wikimedia Commons (4), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.