# Chaska Township *Township in Carver County, Minnesota.* Chaska Township is a township in Carver County, [[Minnesota]].[^1] A National Register Multiple Property Documentation Form published by the Minnesota Department of Administration and the State Historic Preservation Office reports that in 1860 the township's population was 78.85% German-born or of German heritage.[^1] The project's record holds one at-issue pair that names the township. The pair restates the form's demographic figures and links them to a January 2025 White House presidential action.[^2] ## Where The documentation form, titled *Chaska Brick Resources*, gives two 1860 figures. It reports Chaska Township as 78.85% German-born or of German heritage and [[Benton Township]] as 83.1%.[^1] According to the same form, nine of Carver County's eleven townships were still at least 25% German in 1905.[^1] The form covers brickmaking associated with [[Chaska]] over an operating period of 1857–1961, with a peak era of 1880–1920.[^1] It records the following production figures: - In 1863, J.W. Gregg and Company produced 500,000 bricks a year. - In 1873, 75 men worked across three yards, producing 90,000–100,000 bricks a day. - In 1874, Carver produced 2 million bricks for local use and exported more than 500,000.[^1] ## In the at-issue record Pair AI-Carver-035 appears in the project's Carver County package, in the section *Block B — The Founding Document (Pairs 23–40)*. It restates the 1860 and 1905 figures and describes them as the predicate for what happened in Carver County between 1917 and 1922.[^1] The pair anchors the figures to the White House presidential action *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity* (January 2025).[^2] The pair rests on a single source. The pack does not document the events in Carver County between 1917 and 1922 to which the pair refers.[^1] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota Department of Administration / State Historic Preservation Office, *Chaska Brick Resources* National Register Multiple Property Documentation Form (n.d.). The form establishes the 1860 figures for Chaska Township (78.85% German-born or of German heritage) and Benton Township (83.1%), and reports that by 1905 nine of the county's eleven townships were at least 25% German. It also gives the brickmaking operating period of 1857–1961 and the 1863, 1873 and 1874 production figures. https://mn.gov/admin/assets/Chaska%20Brick%20Resources%20MPDF_tcm36-445033.pdf [^2]: The White House, *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity* (January 2025). This is the presidential action cited as the anchor of at-issue pair AI-Carver-035. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/