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History · Sharon Township

Sharon Township’s post office opened in 1871, and 24% of its homes were built before 1940

1871first post office
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How Sharon Township began

When was Sharon Township founded?

1871

The Sharon Township post office opened in 1871, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Dresselville (1865), Saint Henry (1870) and Sharon (1871), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 639155 years
Founding year: the first Sharon Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Sharon 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 Sharon Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Sharon Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Sharon 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.

Dresselville
1865–1900
Saint Henry
1870–1902
Sharon
1871–1899
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Saint Henry
Gone or out of use
Saint Henry Post Officepost office
7cemeteries and burying grounds inside Sharon Township
DresselvilleEvangelical ChurchGermanHillsideSaint HenrySaint John's EvangelicalSharon

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

The story so far

Sharon Township, in brief

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

Sharon Township is a township in Le Sueur County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 658 at the 2000 census. Sharon Township was organized in 1858, and named for the Sharon plain, in present-day Israel.

Its first post office opened in 1871. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 636 in 2010, 639 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Sharon Township, 1865 to 1902

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1865Post officeThe Dresselville post office opens
  3. 1870Post officeThe Saint Henry post office opens
  4. 1871Post officeThe Sharon post office opens
  5. 1899Post officeThe Sharon post office closes
  6. 20th century
  7. 1900Post officeThe Dresselville post office closes
  8. 1902Post officeThe Saint Henry 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.

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Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Tyrone Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townOttawa Township6 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLexington TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCleveland TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Sharon Township’s history

What year was Sharon Township founded?

The Sharon Township post office opened in 1871, 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 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.