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History · Troy Township

53% of Troy Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1967 on.

0on the National Register
53%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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From Troy Township’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Troy 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 writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Troy Township’s homes were built before 1938.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Troy Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewTroy Mill, Saratoga Township: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Troy Township, in brief

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

Troy Township is a township in Pipestone County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 318 at the 2000 census. Troy Township was organized in 1879, and named after Troy, New York.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 289 to 245 (-15%).

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

Timeline

Troy Township, 1885 to 1967

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1885Post officeThe Cazenovia post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1938Post officeThe Cazenovia post office closes
  5. 1967On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Troy Township, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
Troy Mill, Saratoga TownshipDate?Troy Mill, Saratoga Township
On the map

Troy Township on the map, 1967 to 1985

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

Troy Township on the 1967 USGS mapTroy Township on the 1985 USGS map1967Elkton SW sheet · 1:24,000

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

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Troy Mill, Saratoga Township
Retake this viewTroy Mill, Saratoga Township

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Troy Township’s page.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Troy Township

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

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Harold Rawdon BriggsBritish Army general · b. 1894
Vern EhlersAmerican politician · b. 1934
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Lambert Anthony HochCatholic bishop · b. 1903
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Noelle NeedhamAmerican ice hockey executive · b. 1986
Places that used to be

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

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Cazenovia
Gone or out of use
CazenovialocaleCazenovia Post Officepost officePerkins Lazy Meadows Airportairport
1cemetery inside Troy Township
Troy

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.

Grange TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSweet Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAltona TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Troy Township’s history

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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 the Library of Congress (1), 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.