CLEARWATER
Township, settled in 1854, organized May 11, 1858, and its earlier city
in section 35, platted in the spring of 1856, received this name from
the Clearwater Lake and River, there
tributary to the Mississippi. The city was incorporated as a village on
February 26, 1857. A typical New England village, it was settled by
Old-Stock Americans; it was platted in 1855 and 1856 for the owners,
Simon Stevens, Jonah Talbot, and William Fellows. The Burbank Stage
Company came in 1856; the post office began in 1856 with Simon Stevens
as postmaster; also known as Clearwater Lake.