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History · St. Lawrence Township

St. Lawrence Township’s post office opened in 1857, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of St. Lawrence Township was built recently: 10% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1991. Its Register listing is the Abraham Bisson House.

1857first post office
1on the National Register
10%homes built before 1940
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How St. Lawrence Township began

When was St. Lawrence Township founded?

1857

The St. Lawrence Township post office opened in 1857, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Saint Lawrence (1857), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 492169 years
Founding year: the first St. Lawrence Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about St. Lawrence 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 St. Lawrence Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how St. Lawrence Township’s history is told.

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The story so far

St. Lawrence Township, in brief

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

St. Lawrence Township is a township in Scott County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 492 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1857. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 483 in 2010, 492 in 2020.

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

Timeline

St. Lawrence Township, 1857 to 1884

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1857Post officeThe Saint Lawrence post office opens
  3. 1879Post officeThe Saint Lawrence post office closes
  4. 1884BuiltAbraham Bisson House is built
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 National Register

1 historic place in St. Lawrence Township

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1980
Abraham Bisson House
Abraham Bisson House, built 1884
Buildings
Abraham Bisson HouseBuilt 1884

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

Famous people

Famous people close to St. Lawrence Township

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

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Beth RiesgrafAmerican actress · b. 1978
Tiffany StrattonAmerican professional wrestler · b. 1999
Jack BergmanAmerican military official and politician · b. 1947
Maurice StansAmerican accountant, civil servant · b. 1908
John Roach20th-century American Catholic bishop · b. 1921
Carol Molnau46th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota · b. 1949
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Lawrence
Gone or out of use
Saint Lawrence Post Officepost office

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.

San Francisco Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townJordan3 historic placesB+Belle Plaine TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSand Creek Township1 historic placeABelle Plaine2 historic placesB−

Questions about St. Lawrence Township’s history

What year was St. Lawrence Township founded?

The St. Lawrence Township post office opened in 1857, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in St. Lawrence Township?

One place: the Abraham Bisson House (listed 1980).

Memory lane

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

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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.