Early Landowners

1880 Chaska Township Plat Map

The 1880 Carver County plat map was pretty detailed in depicting the early landowners of the county. When I was researching the area in regard to the Chaska brickyards, I came across information about many of the original landowners. As any genealogy researcher knows, how names were spelled back in the late 1800’s can vary from newspapers to plat maps to census records. One letter being omitted or inserted can be the difference in finding more information on a person or not. So far, I have not found everyone on this Chaska Township map, but I do have information on quite a few of the names shown here. If you find something in error or have any other information not posted here, I would love to hear about it!

Get an in depth view of some of the Chaska Township landowners from 1880 by clicking on a number in the image above.  There were no landowners in Section 1.  Thus, it has been cropped out of the image.

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Source:  Map of Carver County, Minnesota.  Published by Warner & Foote, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1880.