Place:Andover, Anoka, Minnesota, United States

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NameAndover
TypeCity
Coordinates45.233°N 93.283°W
Located inAnoka, Minnesota, United States
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Andover is a city in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 32,601 at the 2020 census.

History

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Andover first organized in 1857 as Round Lake Township.

In 1860 after an Anoka, Minnesota speech by U.S. Representative Galusha Aaron Grow from Pennsylvania who was an abolitionist and a major figure in the Homestead Act, the town name was changed to Grow Township.

Ham Lake Township split from Andover, known as Grow Township at the time, in 1871.

Once a stop on the Great Northern Railway, Andover was established as a city in 1976.

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