Upcoming Meetings:
Starting in 2017, the Bergen monthly meetings will be the 2nd Wednesday of every month. The meetings will be at 7:00pm at the Lester Prairie City Hall located at 37 Juniper St N, Lester Prairie, MN 55354.

November Meeting has been changed to Thursday, November 14th at 7:00pm at Lester Pr. City Hall.

Bergen Township is located in the North East corner of McLeod County and it is largely a farming community.

History:  Bergen Township was named by the Norwegian settlers that immigrated from Bergen Norway.  The township has rolling terrain with two major waterways, which are the south fork of the Crow River and Buffalo Creek.  Near the center of the township was a settlement called Brush Prairie.  This little village consisted of a general store, blacksmith, country school, church, town hall and post office.  This settlement existed until 1911, when a new town hall was built on the present site.  The village could not exist at its site, as business started growing where the railroad came through, which is now the town of Lester Prairie.  On April 5, 1859, the first voters meeting of Bergen Township was held with 33 voters present.  All the early township records shows that the most important business dealt with was road issues and as of today, there are approximately 34 miles of township roads.