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History · Louisville Township

44% of Louisville Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
44%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Louisville 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 Louisville Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Louisville Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.Old housesHalf of Louisville Township’s homes were built before 1949.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Louisville 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.

Huot
1881–1936
Dorothy
1898–1945
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
DorothyHuot
Gone or out of use
Dorothy Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Louisville Township
HuotSaint Dorothy's

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

The story

How Louisville Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Louisville Township.

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Louisville Township was settled as part of a colony of immigrants from Quebec introduced by promoter Pierre Bottineau in the 1870s. It was organized in 1879 and named after an early settler, Louis Huot, whose last name also was affixed to a small settlement within the township known as Huot. A large percentage of the township population was French or French-Canadian. The primary economic activity has always been agriculture. The townsite of Dorothy and the Old Crossing Treaty State Park at Huot are the only non-agricultural features of the township.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Louisville Township, 1881 to 1945

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1881Post officeThe Huot post office opens
  3. 1898Post officeThe Dorothy post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1936Post officeThe Huot post office closes
  6. 1945Post officeThe Dorothy post office closes
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Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Red Lake Falls TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWylie TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townParnell TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGentilly Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBelgium 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, 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.