High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Racine Township is a township in Mower County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 445 at the time of the 2000 census. The largest town in the township is Racine with a population of 355 people. All other area in the township is unincorporated. The first settler in Racine township, Jacob McQuillan, was also the first settler in the county (see Mower County for more history). In 1853, Thomaas Cory, a Massachusetts man, settled on the McQuillan place. The old village of Hamilton was once located about two miles southeast of the town of Racine in the northeast corner of section 1 (the east half of the village was in Fillmore County).