[4] By the 1930s, the town included a freight station, a store, a lumberyard, a blacksmith shop, a garage, and a pool hall.

The Reesor United Mennonite Church had begun services in 1926; a building and cemetery were added in the mid-1930s on Lot 26, Conc.

II, McGowan Township, about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the siding.

[citation needed] The transition from cutting pulpwood to agriculture proved to be very difficult in Reesor.

[citation needed] In 2007, a play was written about the Mennonite settlement in Reesor by Lauren Taylor and Erin Brandenburg.