Editing Jordan, Minnesota (section)

==History==
The community began on November 27, 1853, when [[Thomas A. Holmes]] ordered the construction of a sawmill. This establishment gave Jordan its first name, Holmes Mill.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sjbjordan.org/parish-history |title=Parish History - St. John the Baptist Catholic Church - Jordan, MN |website=sjbjordan.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615061635/http://www.sjbjordan.org/parish-history |archive-date=June 15, 2016}}</ref>

A year after the mill's founding, Thomas's brother William Holmes moved to the site and began [[plat]]ting a settlement.<ref name="Upham 508">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog | title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance | publisher=Minnesota Historical Society | last=Upham | first=Warren | year=1920 | page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n525 508]}}</ref> By 1855, he surveyed and recorded his settlement as Jordan City, after the [[Jordan River]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA180|year=1908|page=180}}</ref> Jordan City accumulated some success in 1855 and 1856 with the addition of a post office and a handful of businesses.

In 1860, the neighboring settlement of Brentwood was surveyed by S. A. Hooper, J. H. Gardner and R. W. Thomas. The two settlements competed until a legislative action consolidated them into the village of Jordan in 1872. The consolidation only helped the settlement and by 1880 the population had boomed to 915 along with a boom in businesses in the village. A few of these businesses were breweries, which became especially successful until prohibition in 1919 temporarily caused their closure.

Jordan was incorporated as a city in 1891.<ref name="Upham 508" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://twincitiespropertyfinder.com/city-of-jordan-a-brief-history/|title=City of Jordan: A Brief History -|date=September 22, 2015}}</ref>