Brooklyn Historical Society                          Site Index & Links Page Brooklyn Township, Hennepin County, State of Minnesota:  Brooklyn Park. Brooklyn Center      March 2008

Home page for contact information & introduction. Membership / Book Orders form & details. Current Projects page for current events & research.         Link to our Fall Meeting & Civil War era story! Civil War project page. BREAKING NEWS in the release of Volume 1 (A-G) of PATRIOTS OF BROOKLYN         or the Civil War story of THE BUFFERS soldiers. Farm History page & community development notes.         Link to the Tessman Farms images page! Genealogy / Cemetery information & ideas.         NEW page on Immigrant Ancestors is here!         Link to Mound Cemetery, just click here!         Link to Brooklyn-Crystal Cemetery, click here! Landowner page & our vintage maps from the 1800's and how to read a Plat Map.       View our (.jpg) image of the 1914 Landowner map         & to enlarge, click on the map or browser controls.       View our (.pdf) image of an 1899 Landowner map         & use the Adobe Reader to zoom or copy. Surveying and how the Township Sections were devised.  They work the same way in every township in every County. Brooklyn Center modern roads & lots TOWNSHIP LINES shown.  If you locate a farm in a vintage map, here you might find the current location using roads and parcels of today. This map is also in (.pdf) Adobe Reader forman. Learn about the Earle Brown Farm by clicking here! Brooklyn Park modern roads & lots: TOWNSHIP LINES are also available on our landowner page.  The link is to a PDF image on the City of Brooklyn Park computer that is fairly large but does show township corners.  A similar map is now at our office for quickly finding family property locations.  The township corners are noted by circles with 4 section numbers noted.  You locate the applicable corners and you've found the modern day parameters of the section. A link to the North Mississippi Regional Park pages, one of the Three Rivers parks!  Or here for the web site of the Camden Historical Society in North Minneapolis. See news of the 2008 Sesquicentennial (150 years). NEW! See our page on RAILROADS in Minnesota, 1944! Checks from companies!  In 2007 your Brooklyn Historical Society received checks from three local corporations to acknowledge the volunteer work done by their employees.  Check out the Corporate Honor Roll by this link!

The seventh-inning stretch song is 100 years old in 2008... Brooklyn Township is also celebrating 150 years along with our own State of Minnesota (1858-2008)

NEW Area Photographs from the turn-of-the-century!

We have a laminated map of Brooklyn Park that shows the Brooklyn Township lines versus modern roads. This makes finding a historical family farm location much easier!

For a personal copy of our local history "The Brooklyn's", the story of Brooklyn Township and two cities in Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center, see our Membership Books page!!

Look here for a local military museum with a slight bias to the Viet Nam era, click here: Crystal Military Museum on the grounds of the Crystal Airport!

Crystal Lake Township to CRYSTAL!

Thank you Brookdale Center for the opportunity to serve our communities!

Think about joining our board or volunteering for one of our many projects.  "In order to know where you're going you have to know where you've been." We help accomplish that goal!

North Hennepin Community College page, 40 years of classes in 2006!

The oldest church in Brooklyn Park was partly started by a Civil War soldier Ebin Bragdon and his brother war veteran Alonzo Bragdon. Heritage Chapel welcomes you to their web site.

1945 Aerial View of part of the Township (pdf file), then still mostly a farming area!

Brooklyn Township Dog tags in 1863 + NAMES from 1865-1868!

Bremer Bank is owned by a foundation that benefits our area!

2008 Brooklyn Center Party Program Details!

New! The Who's Who of Brooklyn Township History!

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Interested in the environment & conservation?  Check out our local chapter on West River Road of the Walter Breckenridge IZAAK WALTON League of America here!