Acton community i Acton township i Meeker county i Minnesota i USA

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Länk: Acton, Minnesota

A post office called Acton was established in 1857, with Peter Ritchie as the postmaster, and it remained in operation until 1904, but the community was only organized into a village or township in April 1858. It was named after Acton, Ontario, Canada, where the Peter Ritchie family came from, when they settled in the area in 1857. (Peter was born circa 1831 in Canada.) Peter was counted in the September 21, 1857 census as living in Township 119 (Acton). Also in 1857, Robinson Jones, Howard Baker and his mother, and Abram Kelley settled there. Capt. George W. Robinson and John Blackwell came about the same time also. Besides Blackwell, the rest had all met in a lumber camp on the upper Mississippi in the previous winter. The first child born in Acton was William R. Ritchie, son of Peter and Margaret Ritchie. Peter didn't file his land claim until 1860.