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History · Roseville Township

50% of Roseville Township’s homes were built before 1940

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50%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Roseville Township’s past

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A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Roseville Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Roseville Township’s homes were built before 1945.
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The story

How Roseville Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Roseville Township.

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Roseville's land was originally settled by the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples. The first white settlers came in 1843, and Native Americans left the area by 1862. Rose Township was established in 1858; it was named after one of the first settlers, Isaac Rose. The township included the areas now known as Roseville, Lauderdale, and Falcon Heights, as well as parts of present-day Saint Paul and Minneapolis. When it was first organized, Rose Township's western boundary was what is now Stinson Boulevard in Minneapolis, and its southern boundary was what is now Marshall Avenue until Dale Street, where it turned north until University Avenue (then called Minnehaha Avenue), where it turned east until it met Rice Street. Saint Paul's continued expansion and county boundary adjustments with Hennepin County reduced its size over time.

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By decade

Roseville Township, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Guitar Center parking lot from the intersection of County Road B22010Guitar Center parking lot from the intersection of Co…Dairy Queen2010Dairy Queen2009-0610-009-Roseville-TargetNo120092009-0610-009-Roseville-TargetNo1Sundog2006SundogDairy queen2006Dairy queenMNMap-doton-Roseville2005MNMap-doton-Roseville
Places that used to be

Places now gone and burying grounds

Gone or out of use
School Number 16schoolSchool Number 20schoolSchool Number 23 NorthschoolSchool Number 23 SouthschoolSchool Number 59school
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Roseville Township
BrenninRoseville

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.

Macsville TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLand TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRendsville TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLien TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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 Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia 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.