Editing Byron, Minnesota (section)

==History==
Byron was [[plat]]ted in 1864.<ref name="Upham 385">{{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/n404 385]}}</ref><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=PA50|year=1908|page=50}}</ref> A post office called Byron has been in operation since 1868.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Olmsted | title=Olmsted County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=27 July 2015}}</ref>  by [[George W. Van Dusen]] which he named after his birthplace of [[Byron, New York]]. Byron was incorporated in 1873.<ref name="Upham 385" /> Before the town was established, a small community known as Bear Grove was west of present-day Byron.