Rio Township This township llies in the extreme northwest part of the county, and is not suprassed by many in the whole Northwest. In the Spring of 1830, Joseph ROWE located on Sect. 33, being the first settler in the twp. He was soon followed by Reese JONES and Joseph HALLIDAY, the former locating on the northwest corner of Sect. 6 within a stone's throw of the corner of the county. Soon thereafter came Abe JONES, and in 1832, John CRESSWELL settled on Sect. 27, near Fort Aggie, which was situated within forty rods of the southwest corner of the same section. This fort was built during the Black Hawk War in 1832 and was named in honor of CRESSWELL's wife. It stood unmolested until 1836 when Joseph HAHN tore it down and constructed a barn out of the logs near where the fort stood. In 1836 came Nelson and Lewis COE, and John WOOLEY. Wooley had come into Knox twp. in 1832, where he remained for four years. Luther FITCH came in 1840. About 1851 a meeting was held by request to select a name for the township. Someone made a motion to lay off a town along the slough east of the road and north of the barn of E.A. BARTLETT for the reason that the land was good for nothing else. The Mexican war had just closed and the Rio Grande river as the boundary line of the United States and Mexico was in the mouth of every war man in opposition to Rio Nueces river as claimed by the Mexicans. At this meeting the Rio Grande had a majority of admirers. It was proposed that the township should be called Rio. This was accepted and adopted, and thus ever since, has the township worn the beautiful Spanish name. There are four churches in Rio Twp. One union of Congregational and Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Regular Baptist, and Protestant Methodist. Joan