On Main Street South (State Highway 9) at 1st Avenue Southwest, on the right when traveling south on Main Street South.
1865 Louis Larson filed homestead rights and named the site New London.
1867 Merchants W.W. Pinney and Samuel Adams each built and opened stores. Postal service began.
1868 New London became county seat of Monongalia County.
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On Main Street South (State Highway 9) at 1st Avenue Southwest, on the right when traveling south on Main Street South.
1938 A thorough study of a hundred acre location was carried out by the U.S. Commission of Surveys. Dam and mill site were purchased for $14,000. Land for fish ponds extended a mile downstream. Citizens contributed $1,300, and some easements . . . — — Map (db m79642) HM
On 180th Avenue Northwest (County Highway 40) 2 miles west of County Highway 5, on the right when traveling west.
During the Dakota Conflict of 1862, there were no casualties among the Norway Lake community settlers, although several from the nearby West Lake community were killed. On August 20, survivors from West Lake and other settlers from the Norway . . . — — Map (db m75746) HM
On 68th Street Northwest (County Road 101) 0.8 miles south of 180th Avenue Northwest (County Highway 40), on the right when traveling south.
In 1879 this village of Jericho was established in the historic Norway Lake settlement, 20 years after the first Norwegian immigrants arrived. A general store with a post office, a blacksmith shop, a creamery, and other businesses prospered in . . . — — Map (db m78215) HM
Near 3rd Avenue Southwest east of Oak Street South, on the right when traveling east.
This Monument is Erected by the
State of Minnesota,
in Memory of
Anders Petter Lundborg,
born Mar. 23, 1837.
Gustof Lundborg, born Apr. 30, 1839.
Lars Lundborg, born Dec. 22, . . . — — Map (db m78140) HM WM
On Main Street South (State Highway 9) at 1st Avenue Southwest, on the right when traveling south on Main Street South.
1858 A natural waterfall was discovered by pioneer Larson while on a hunting and trapping expedition three miles upriver from Nest Lake.
1859 Larson established a camp near the falls but had to abandon it when his tent and most of his . . . — — Map (db m79590) HM
On Main Street South (State Highway 9) at 1st Avenue Southwest, on the right when traveling south on Main Street South.
1946 Forty-two veterans met and signed the petition for a charter. The post was given its name in memory of Robert Ihlang who was killed in Italy during World War II. The charter was granted, and the officers were: commander, Victor Suneson; . . . — — Map (db m79634) HM
Near 3rd Avenue Southwest east of Oak Street South, on the right when traveling east.
Rev. Andrew Jackson had two services arranged in his Norway Lake Swedish Lutheran Parish for Wednesday, the 20th of August, 1862. In the forenoon a meeting was held at the Lundborg cabin at West Lake, now known as Monson Lake in Swift County. Here a . . . — — Map (db m79405) HM
Near 3rd Avenue Southwest east of Oak Street South, on the right when traveling east.
This historical inclosure and all of its adornments constitute a memorial to Victor E. Lawson (1871–1960) the pioneer historian of Kandiyohi County. It has been provided by the Tribune Printing Company, Inc. publishers of the West Central . . . — — Map (db m79397) HM
On Main Street South (State Highway 9) at 1st Avenue Southwest, on the right when traveling south on Main Street South.
Department of the Air Force
United States of America
MCMXLVII
Department of the Navy
United States Marine Corps
National Guard
Department of the Navy
United States of America
Department of the Army
United . . . — — Map (db m79556) WM
On North Shore Drive (County Highway 30) 1.5 miles west of County Road 4 Northeast, on the right when traveling west.
American Indians lived in Kandiyohi County for thousands of years before settlers first arrived in the 1850s. Among the earliest Euro-Americans to visit this area were traders and missionaries as far back as the mid-1700s. The Missionaries came to . . . — — Map (db m231752) HM