Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Rosendale Township

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Rosendale Township

33% of Rosendale Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Alfred R. Voss Farmstead. Its Register listing is the Alfred R. Voss Farmstead.

1on the National Register
33%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory

What stands out about Rosendale 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 Rosendale Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Rosendale Township’s homes were built before 1962.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Rosendale Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Rosendale Township, in brief

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

Rosendale Township is a township in Watonwan County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 357 at the 2000 census. Rosendale Township was organized in 1869, and named after Rosendale, Wisconsin, the former home of an early settler.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 300 to 273 (-9%).

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

Timeline

Rosendale Township, 1891 to 1932

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1891Post officeThe Grogan post office opens
  3. 1893BuiltAlfred R. Voss Farmstead is built
  4. 20th century
  5. 1932Post officeThe Grogan post office closes
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.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
On the National Register

1 historic place in Rosendale Township

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
8
each building in a district counts
first listed
1988
Alfred R. Voss Farmstead
Alfred R. Voss Farmstead, built 1893
Buildings
Alfred R. Voss FarmsteadBuilt 1893

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Rosendale Township

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

See all →
Franklin EllsworthAmerican politician · b. 1879
Becky BullerMusical artist · b. 1979
Henry Norman GravenUnited States federal judge · b. 1893
H
Howard HaycraftAmerican writer, editor, and publisher · b. 1905
J
Joanell DyrstadAmerican politician · b. 1942
A
Adrien StoutenburgAmerican poet and children's writer · b. 1916
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Grogan
Gone or out of use
Grogan Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Rosendale Township
Rosendale

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.

St. James2 historic placesBSouth Branch TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFieldon TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRiverdale TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSt. James TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Rosendale Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Rosendale Township?

One place: the Alfred R. Voss Farmstead (listed 1988).

Memory lane

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

Town Square →
Start a conversation
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 Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.