San Francisco, Minnesota

San Francisco is an abandoned townsite in San Francisco Township[1] in Carver County, Minnesota, United States.

San Francisco was first settled in 1854 and named by the founder, William Foster, after the city in California.

[3] The town lasted about ten years from its founding and had a post office from 1856 until 1858 and again from 1861 until 1862.

[4] It still existed as a town in 1870, as there is a U.S. federal census record for it.

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