Richville has nearby resorts and lakes for you to enjoy during your visit in the summer plus snowmobiling trails and ice fishing in the winter. On the Soo railway in Rush Lake Township, platted in the fall of 1903, was incorporated October 25, 1904. This village was named in honor of Watson Wellman Rich, civil engineer, who was born in Dayton, N. Y., March 9, 1841, and died in Shanghai, China, January 12, 1903. He served in the Fourth Minnesota regiment in the civil war, attaining the rank of captain; engaged in engineering work for several railroad lines in Minnesota, and after 1897 was chief consulting engineer of the Imperial Chinese Railway Administration.
Main Street, Richville Minnesota, 1909
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