Pleasant Valley Township, Mower County, Minnesota

Pleasant Valley Township is a township in Mower County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 308 at the 2000 census. There are no recognized cities or towns and the township is entirely an unincorporated area.HistoryThe township was named for Pleasant Valley, New York by its first settler, Sylvester Hills. He came with his son, Byron, in 1854 and brought the rest of his family in 1855. Robert Reed, Russell Hoag and Robert Rowley came in 1857 and Rowley set up a hotel in the Winona wheat route. The township was officially organized in 1858.In 1933 Pleasant Valley Township resident A.E. Hoover, a first cousin of then-President Herbert Hoover traveled with two other farmers to Des Moines, Iowa (about 200 miles away) to secure a compromise on the foreclosure of his farm. He had missed one $400 semi-annual payment and was faced with eviction. He secured a compromise which allowed him to stay on his farm as a renter. Hoover, like the ex-president, was born in West Branch, Iowa.