Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the Lampert Lumber Company Line Yard and the District No. 50 School. Below: maps from 1964 on.
The Milford Township post office opened in 1861, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Milford (1861), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
Milford Township was named from a sawmill at a ford.
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 Milford Township’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Milford Township.
Milford Township was organized in 1858. It was named from a sawmill at a ford.
On August 18, 1862, Milford was attacked by a Dakota warband heading for New Ulm, as part of the 1862 Dakota War. Fifty-three white residents of the township were killed. A monument in their honor was erected in 1929.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Milford Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Milford Township.
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.
Another post office, Milford, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Milford Township post office opened in 1861, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Two places: the Lampert Lumber Company Line Yard (listed 1979) and the District No. 50 School (2017).
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 →
From the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.
