Entries Containing All of the Phrases «watonwan county» AND «minnesota»

August 14, 2023

Ole Boxrud Marker, from the south

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1 ► Minnesota, Watonwan County, Madelia, Rosendale Township — Ole Boxrud —

On 335th Street (County Highway 16) east of 780th Avenue (County Road 118), on the right when traveling west.

Eighteen-year-old Ole Erickson Boxrud spent only two years of his short life in Minnesota, but his heroic act on the evening of April 16, 1863, reserved a place for him in the heritage of Watonwan County. Boxrud was born in Hedalen, Norway, in . . . — — Map (db m230869) HM

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2 ► Minnesota, Watonwan County, Madelia — Watonwan County's First Courthouse —

On W. Main Street east of Abbot Avenue SW, on the right when traveling east.

When Watonwan County was created by the Minnesota Legislature in 1860, the county seat was established at Madelia, then the center of the county's earliest settlement along the Watonwan River. This brick building, erected by Joseph Flanders in . . . — — Map (db m230089) HM

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