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History · Pleasant Prairie Township

Pleasant Prairie Township’s post office opened in 1867, and 42% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1967 on.

1867first post office
0on the National Register
42%homes built before 1940
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How Pleasant Prairie Township began

When was Pleasant Prairie Township founded?

1867

The Pleasant Prairie Township post office opened in 1867, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Rose Lake (1865), Pleasant Prairie (1867) and Imogen (1901), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 228159 years
Founding year: the first Pleasant Prairie Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Pleasant 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 Pleasant Prairie Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Pleasant Prairie Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.Old housesHalf of Pleasant Prairie Township’s homes were built before 1947.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pleasant Prairie 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

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

Rose Lake
1865–1882
Pleasant Prairie
1867–1902
Imogen
1901–1913
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Imogene
Gone or out of use
Imogen Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Pleasant Prairie Township
Pleasant PrairieRose Lake

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

The story so far

Pleasant Prairie Township, in brief

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

Pleasant Prairie Township is a township in Martin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 273 at the 2000 census. Pleasant Prairie Township was named for the typical landscapes within the township.

Its first post office opened in 1867. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 243 to 228 (-6%).

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

Timeline

Pleasant Prairie Township, 1865 to 1967

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1865Post officeThe Rose Lake post office opens
  3. 1867Post officeThe Pleasant Prairie post office opens
  4. 1882Post officeThe Rose Lake post office closes
  5. 20th century
  6. 1901Post officeThe Imogen post office opens
  7. 1902Post officeThe Pleasant Prairie post office closes
  8. 1913Post officeThe Imogen post office closes
  9. 1967On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

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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On the map

Pleasant Prairie Township on the map, 1967 to 1985

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Pleasant Prairie Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Pleasant Prairie Township on the 1967 USGS mapPleasant Prairie Township on the 1985 USGS map1967Granada sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Pleasant Prairie Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Pleasant Prairie Township

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

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Walter MondaleVice President of the United States from 1977 t… · b. 1928
Jim HagedornU.S. Representative from Minnesota · b. 1962
Arlen ErdahlAmerican politician · b. 1931
Tom HagedornAmerican politician · b. 1943
Buddy WolfeAmerican professional wrestler · b. 1941
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Donald DeskeyAmerican industrial designer · b. 1894
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Fairmont TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCenter Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEast Chain TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townJo Daviess TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Pleasant Prairie Township’s history

What year was Pleasant Prairie Township founded?

The Pleasant Prairie Township post office opened in 1867, 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 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.