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Perham Township has a new Hall Location as of June 1st

Our Hall is located at the Perham Center for the Arts - 101 5th St NE, Perham, MN

Perham Township Monthly meetings are the 1st Tuesday of each month. The meetings start at 7:00pm at the Town Hall.

Perham Township quarterly newsletters can be found by clicking on the Information button above.

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Perham Township is located in West Central Minnesota.

It is home to over One Thousand of Minnesota’s beautiful lakes. Organized March 19, 1872, was then called Marion Lake Township, for the lake adjoining its southwest corner; but March 1, 1877, it was renamed, to be like its village, by an act of the legislature.

Josiah Perham, commemorated in this name, was the first president of the Northern Pacific railroad company, in 1864-65. He was born in Wilton,. Maine, in 1803, and died in Boston, Mass., in 1868.

Very interesting biographic notes, with narration of his enthusiastic efforts for construction of this transcontinental railway line, are given in Eugene V. Smalley’s “History of the Northern Pacific Railroad”