The story
Read it all →How Boon Lake Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Boon Lake Township.
Boon Lake Township was organized in 1870, and named after Boon Lake.
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History · Boon Lake Township
Boon Lake Township’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold no old photos of Boon Lake Township yet. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
0old photos & papers
1famous people
What stands out about Boon Lake Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out
Start Boon Lake Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Boon Lake 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.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.
Lake Side
Boon Lake
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Lakeside
Gone or out of use
Lakeside Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Boon Lake Township
Evergreen
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Timeline
Boon Lake Township, 1871 to 1902
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
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.
Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your albumStories next door
History across the town line
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Weigh in
Has Boon Lake Township changed for the better?
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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From Wikipedia, Wikidata for famous people, 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.