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History · Two Rivers Township

Two Rivers Township’s post office opened in 1857, and 22% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1948 on.

1857first post office
0on the National Register
22%homes built before 1940
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How Two Rivers Township began

When was Two Rivers Township founded?

1857

The Two Rivers Township post office opened in 1857, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Two Rivers (1857) and North Prairie (1867), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 780169 years
Founding year: the first Two Rivers Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Two Rivers 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 Two Rivers Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Two Rivers Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Two Rivers 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

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

Two Rivers
1857–1884
North Prairie
1867–1904
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
North Prairie
Gone or out of use
North Prairie Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Two Rivers Township
Holy Cross Church

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

The story

How Two Rivers Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Two Rivers Township.

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Two Rivers Township was organized September 5, 1865. It was first named Grant Township but when the name was sent to the State Auditor it was found that a Washington County town already had that name. The name was then changed to Two Rivers, named for the Two River a Mississippi River tributary in Morrison County.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Two Rivers Township, 1857 to 1948

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1857Post officeThe Two Rivers post office opens
  3. 1867Post officeThe North Prairie post office opens
  4. 1884Post officeThe Two Rivers post office closes
  5. 20th century
  6. 1904Post officeThe North Prairie post office closes
  7. 1948On 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

Two Rivers Township on the map, 1948 to 1978

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

Two Rivers Township on the 1948 USGS mapTwo Rivers Township on the 1950 USGS mapTwo Rivers Township on the 1978 USGS map1948Little Falls 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 Two Rivers Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Langola TownshipIts storyC−Bellevue Township1 historic placeB+Swan River TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townElmdale TownshipIts storyBBrockway TownshipIts storyC−

Questions about Two Rivers Township’s history

What year was Two Rivers Township founded?

The Two Rivers Township post office opened in 1857, 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 Wikipedia, 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.