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History · Walker Township

Walker Township’s post office opened in 1873, and 33% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1966 on.

1873first post office
0on the National Register
33%homes built before 1940
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How Walker Township began

When was Walker Township founded?

1873

The Walker Township post office opened in 1873, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Looking Glass (1873), Walker (1873) and Rosenburg (1901), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 223153 years
Founding year: the first Walker Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Walker 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 Walker Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Walker Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.Old housesHalf of Walker Township’s homes were built before 1947.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Walker 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

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

Looking Glass
1873–1904
Walker
1873–1874
Rosenburg
1901–1904
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Rosenborg
Gone or out of use
Rosenburg Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Walker Township
Hope

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

The story

How Walker Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Walker Township.

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Walker Township was established in 1871 by John Walker and others. In 1884, Joseph Alfred Borg settled on the land and purchased 160 acres.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Walker Township, 1873 to 1966

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1873Post officeThe Looking Glass post office opens
  3. 1873Post officeThe Walker post office opens
  4. 1874Post officeThe Walker post office closes
  5. 20th century
  6. 1901Post officeThe Rosenburg post office opens
  7. 1904Post officeThe Looking Glass post office closes
  8. 1904Post officeThe Rosenburg post office closes
  9. 1966On 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

Walker Township on the map, 1966 to 1985

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

Walker Township on the 1966 USGS mapWalker Township on the 1985 USGS map1966Newman Grove 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 Walker Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Newman GroveIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWoodville TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSt. Bernard TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Walker Township’s history

What year was Walker Township founded?

The Walker Township post office opened in 1873, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 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.