Crandall, located in Oak Gulch township, south half of section 32, was platted by Thomas A. Way, July 6, 1907. It was in this year that the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad passed through this part of the county. Several blocks have been platted into lots and quite a number of residences and business buildings have been erected. The town seemed ready for a pretty lively growth, but a few lean crop years and a disastrous fire which burned one side of the business block seriously arrested its progress. It now has one general store and lumber yard, one implement dealer, one bank, a branch of the State Bank of Bradley, one garage and blacksmith, combined, two grain elevators, a school and church. It has a population of less than a hundred. The business men are most of them descendants of pioneers.