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History · Pepin Township

21% of Pepin Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Reads Landing School and the Reads Landing Overlook. Below: 2 old photos and papers.

2on the National Register
21%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
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From Pepin Township’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Pepin 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 writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Pepin Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Pepin Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pepin Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo2 archive items have no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewGroup Portrait at Read's Landing on Lak…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and old corners

Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Reeds Landing
1850–1894
Reeds
1894–1916
Reads
1916–1950
Reads Landing
1950–today
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Maple SpringsReads Landing

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

The story so far

Pepin Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Pepin Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Pepin Township is a township in Wabasha County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 471 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Maple Springs, Camp Lacupolis and Reads Landing are in the township. Pepin Township was organized in 1858 and named after Lake Pepin.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 378 to 366 (-3%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Pepin Township, 1850 to 1950

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1850Post officeThe Reeds Landing post office opens
  3. 1894Post officeThe Reeds Landing post office closes
  4. 1894Post officeThe Reeds post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1916Post officeThe Reeds post office closes
  7. 1916Post officeThe Reads post office opens
  8. 1940BuiltReads Landing Overlook is built
  9. 1950Post officeThe Reads post office closes
By decade

Pepin Township, decade by decade

Date unknown2 to date
Group Portrait at Read's Landing on Lake PepinDate?Group Portrait at Read's Landing on Lake PepinGroup Portrait at Read's Landing on Lake PepinDate?Group Portrait at Read's Landing on Lake Pepin
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Group Portrait at Read's Landing on Lake Pepin
Retake this viewGroup Portrait at Read's Landing on Lake Pepin

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Pepin Township’s page.

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On the National Register

2 historic places in Pepin Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1989
Reads Landing School
Reads Landing SchoolReads Landing Overlook, built 1940
BuildingsSites

Architectural styles listings

Victorian Italianate1
NPS Rustic1
Reads Landing SchoolVictorian Italianate
Reads Landing OverlookNPS Rustic · Built 1940

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Wabasha10 historic placesA+Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGlasgow TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Pepin Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Pepin Township?

Two places: the Reads Landing School (listed 1989) and the Reads Landing Overlook (2004).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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 Wikimedia Commons (2), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.