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click here for some Franconia Township history!

click here for some Franconia Township history!

Welcome to Franconia Township!

Thirty-six years ago a family man and farmer, Eugene Greene approached Town Clerk, John Jackson with his filing fee to contend in the March 12, 1974 election for a three-year term as Town Supervisor in Franconia Township. The sensitive issue of the day was whether a vacated one-room school house should be saved and converted for use as the first official town hall or if land should be acquired and a new building erected.  Until this

decision was made regularly scheduled meetings were rotated between the homes of the members of the Board.  Mr. Greene was quite familiar with the old school house, intimately you could say with his daily attendance at class through the sixth grade.  (click here to read entire story)

Map is from Plat Book of Chisago County Minnesota, C.M. Foote & Co. 1888

 
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