Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the City Blacksmith Shop and the J. A. Anderson House. Below: old-book passages.
The Lamberton post office opened in 1873, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lamberton’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Lamberton.
Lamberton was platted in 1873, and named for Henry Wilson Lamberton, a railroad official. A post office has been in operation at Lamberton since 1873. Lamberton was incorporated in 1879.
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Passages that mention Lamberton, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The next school house was the two-story building erected on lots 4, 5 and 6, block 6, in the village of Lamberton, in the year 1891. This building was purchased by the village of Lamberton from the shool district on March 27, 1907, and is now being used for a village hall and for housing the village fire company apparatus.
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ships of Springdale, North Hero, Gales, Johnsonville, Westline, Underwood, Vesta, the unorganized town 111, range 38, and the village of Walnut Grove. 2 — All the land in the township of Lamberton, Charlestown, Waterbury, Willow Lake, Vail, New Avon, and the village of Lamberton. 3 — All the land in the townships of Sundown, Brookville, Three Lakes, Morgan, Paxton, and Sherman. 4 — All the land in the village of Redwood Palls. 5 — All the land in the townships of Sheridan, Redwood Falls, Kintire,
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years of age when he located 160 acres in section 24, Lamberton township. He built a 24 by 24 house and the next year sold the place and located in the village of Lamberton, where he went into the livery business. He continued in this for six years, and then returned to farming in Lamberton township, renting a farm until 1915, when he bought 15 acres and farmed there until last fall. He is now taking care of the state road from Lamberton to Brown county. He is associated with the M. W. A. of Lam-
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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.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
The Lamberton post office opened in 1873, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Two places: the City Blacksmith Shop (listed 1980) and the J. A. Anderson House (1980).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 →
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