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History · Wolford Township

Wolford Township’s post office opened in 1913, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Wolford Township was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1988. Below: maps from 1959 on.

1913first post office
1on the National Register
2%homes built before 1940
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How Wolford Township began

When was Wolford Township founded?

1913

The Wolford Township post office opened in 1913, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Manganese (1912) and Wolford (1913), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 348113 years
Founding year: the first Wolford Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Wolford 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 Wolford Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Wolford Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Wolford Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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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

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

Manganese
1912–1924
Wolford
1913–1919
19101970today
Hamlets and corners on the map
ManganeseWolford
Gone or out of use
Manganese Post Officepost officeWolford Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Wolford Township
Wolford

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

The story so far

Wolford Township, in brief

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

Wolford is an unincorporated community in Wolford Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States, near Crosby. It is along Crow Wing County Road 30 near River Road. State Highway 6 (MN 6) and County Road 11 are both nearby. Perry Lake Township is also in the immediate area. Wolford was platted in 1913.

Its first post office opened in 1913. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 379 to 348 (-8%).

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

Timeline

Wolford Township, 1912 to 1959

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1912Post officeThe Manganese post office opens
  3. 1913Post officeThe Wolford post office opens
  4. 1919Post officeThe Wolford post office closes
  5. 1924Post officeThe Manganese post office closes
  6. 1959On 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

Wolford Township on the map in 1959

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Wolford Township.

Wolford Township on the 1959 USGS map1959Trommald 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 Wolford Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Wolford Township

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2011
Milford Mine Historic District
Milford Mine Historic District
Districts
Milford Mine Historic DistrictDistrict

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Wolford Township

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

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Rick NolanAmerican politician · b. 1943
C. Elmer AndersonAmerican politician · b. 1912
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Joshua Norman HaldemanPolitician and chiropractor · b. 1902
Delos W. LovelaceAmerican novelist and biographer · b. 1894
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Cole SmithAmerican ice hockey player · b. 1995
Thomas W. Simons, Jr.American diplomat · b. 1938
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Perry Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCenter TownshipIts storyDMission TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCuyuna2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTrommald1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townIrondale TownshipIts storyCRabbit Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCrosby3 historic placesB

Questions about Wolford Township’s history

What year was Wolford Township founded?

The Wolford Township post office opened in 1913, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Wolford Township?

One place: the Milford Mine Historic District (listed 2011).

Memory lane

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 the National Register of Historic Places (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.