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 214 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY appearing stranger was welcome to such accommodation as he had. He frequently entertained fifty persons the same night. Not many of those who came to settle at that time were able to have good sized log houses. Sod houses and board shanties were common. The years which have passed since then have brought great changes." In the early days there were two flouring mills, one owned by Messrs. Bailey and Collins on the Big Cannon, and the other by Messrs. Wilcox and Archibald on the Little Cannon. The latter, known as the Oxford flouring mill, was burned several years ago. The Methodist Episcopal church was built in 187-1 on section 32. It is 28x44 and cost $2,000. The Oxford Methodist church was completed in June, 1873, size 26x40. These churches were the first in the township. Stanton's contribution to the Civil War was as follows: Jonathan Clifford, Ezra Cornell. Emanuel Deaken, Daniel Good- hue, William Goudy. John W. Gould, Samuel Gould, Charles Goodhue. L. B. Hat. Hiram Hoffstetter, AVhitney Jewell. Elisha A. Jackson. John W. Moore. W. II. McDonald, William E. Poe, Jonathan S. Poe, Reby S. Philbert, James L. Scofield, Charles M. Scofield, Edwin Season, Sylvester Trusdell, Edward Thomas, Joseph Thomas, Elijah T. Thomas, Gilbert Trusdell, Charles Vier- kent, Edmund Deaken, John Chase, James Strange, Otis B. Bailey. James Babb. Jr.. David Denny, Henry Drought. Patrick Quinlan. Eli Marsh. Andrew Norelius, William Harrison, August Kaunlke, Reinhart Reibath. Stanton is a station on the Chicago & Great Western railroad, in Stanton township, twenty-five miles southwest of Red Wing. It has a hotel, postoffice, a church, schoolhouse and several places of business. Oxford Mills is situated on the Little Cannon, and here were located the Oxford flouring mills. Here are now a Methodist church, residences and other buildings. Cascade is a settlement in the northwestern part of the township. VASA TOWNSHIP. Vasa k the center of the Swedish settlement in Goodhue county. The township comprises all of township 112, range 16, and all of that part of township 113, range 16, that lies south of the Cannon river. It is bounded on the north by the Cannon river, which separates it from the town of Welch, on the easi by Featherstone, on the south by Belle Creek and on the west by Cannon Falls. Belle creek crosses the township from south to north and flows into the Cannon river. The surface is some-