Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: old-book passages.
The Morgan post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Lolland (1881), opened inside today’s city and later closed.
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 Morgan’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Morgan.
Morgan was platted in 1878. The city was named for Lewis H. Morgan (1818-1881), an American politician and anthropologist. A post office has been in operation in Morgan since 1878. Morgan was incorporated in 1889.
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Passages that mention Morgan, cut from the printed page as they were published.
C. B. Root received his early educational training in the schools of his neighborhood and grew to manhood on the home farm. In 1898 he bought 240 acres in section 2, Morgan township, and conducted this farm until 1904, when he moved to the village of Morgan and was manager of the Farmers' Elevator Company for three years. Then he engaged in the meat business for three years. Mr. Root is now engaged in buying and selling of stock, and is also in the real estate business. He was one of the organ-
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of Casper and Barbara (Biebl) Green. He was reared in his native township, attended the public schools and thoroughly learned the milling industry from his father. In 1909 he secured an interest in the Morgan Roller Mills, previously owned by his father, and became the active manager. In 1911 he purchased the elevator at Morgan of the Sleepy Eye Milling Company, which he now operates. Since 1915 he has been secretary, treasurer and manager of the Wherland Electric Company of Morgan, Minn. Mr.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Morgan itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Morgan’s post office has been open since 1878. Another post office, Lolland, 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).
The Morgan post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 Wikipedia, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.