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History · Saratoga Township

Saratoga Township’s post office opened in 1856, and 15% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1954 on.

1856first post office
0on the National Register
15%homes built before 1940
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How Saratoga Township began

When was Saratoga Township founded?

1856

The Saratoga Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name. Four smaller post offices, Saratoga (1856), Worth (1857) and Troy (1858), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 618170 years
Founding year: the first Saratoga Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Saratoga 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 Saratoga Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Saratoga Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Saratoga Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

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

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

Saratoga
1856–1900
Worth
1857–1886
Troy
1858–1905
Clyde
1873–1902
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
ClydeSaratogaTroy
Gone or out of use
Clyde Post Officepost officeSaratoga Post Officepost officeTroy Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Saratoga Township
SaratogaWorth

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

The story so far

Saratoga Township, in brief

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

Saratoga is an unincorporated community in Saratoga Township, Winona County, Minnesota, United States. The community is located south of St. Charles; near the junction of State Highway 74 (MN 74) and Winona County Road 10. Nearby places include St. Charles, Troy, Clyde, Dover, and Chatfield. Trout Run Creek flows through the community.

Its first post office opened in 1856. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 618 in 2010, 618 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Saratoga Township, 1856 to 1954

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1856Post officeThe Saratoga post office opens
  3. 1857Post officeThe Worth post office opens
  4. 1858Post officeThe Troy post office opens
  5. 1886Post officeThe Worth post office closes
  6. 20th century
  7. 1900Post officeThe Saratoga post office closes
  8. 1905Post officeThe Troy post office closes
  9. 1954On 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

Saratoga Township on the map, 1954 to 1974

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

Saratoga Township on the 1954 USGS mapSaratoga Township on the 1974 USGS map1954Chatfield sheet · 1:62,500

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Pilot Mound TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSt. Charles TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFremont TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townElmira TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Saratoga Township’s history

What year was Saratoga Township founded?

The Saratoga Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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

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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.