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History · New Prairie Township

New Prairie Township’s post office opened in 1872, and 21% of its homes were built before 1940

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How New Prairie Township began

When was New Prairie Township founded?

1872

The New Prairie Township post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, New Prairie (1872), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 181154 years
Founding year: the first New Prairie Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about New Prairie 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 New Prairie Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how New Prairie Township’s history is told.

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The story

How New Prairie Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of New Prairie Township.

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The village of New Prairie had a post office from 1872 until 1883, and again from 1920 until 1946. New Prairie also had a station of the Northern Pacific Railroad.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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.

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Famous people

Famous people close to New Prairie Township

Nobody well known was born in New Prairie Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Aaron SchockAmerican politician · b. 1981
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Adele WatsonAmerican actress · b. 1890
Jeff HoweAmerican politician · b. 1959
Mona Lyn ReeseComposer · b. 1951
Paul AndersonAmerican politician · b. 1951
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Celius DoughertyPianist and composer · b. 1902
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Gone or out of use
New PrairielocaleNew Prairie Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside New Prairie Township
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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.

White Bear Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNora TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFramnas TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWalden TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHodges TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about New Prairie Township’s history

What year was New Prairie Township founded?

The New Prairie Township post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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.