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"Carlow Beginnings"
Carlow is one of the county's northern townships. Although the township's early settlers were for the most part Scots', Carlow was named after a town in Ireland. The township was surveyed in 1865 - 1866. It was lumbering that attracted these early settlers to the area. In 1869, the post office was opened in Boulter. The school was to be built on land that was donated to the township by Mr. Joseph Stringer in 1873. In the northern part of the township was the "Burgess Mine", where corundum deposits were found in 1906. The mines was operative for eleven years.

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