On 120th Street Southeast (County Road 134) 3.4 miles south of 15th Avenue Northeast (U.S. 12), on the right when traveling south.
Kandiyohi Town Site Corporation was organized in 1856, with John Swainson as president. By October of that year, the town site had been surveyed. David Charlton's plat indicates a large central area reserved for the State Capitol with a much . . . — — Map (db m78239) HM
On 120th Street Southeast (County Road 134) 3.9 miles south of 15th Avenue Northeast (U.S. 12), on the right when traveling south.
Mrs. Carrie (Pehrson) Johnson, the first white person buried in what is now Kandiyohi County, came here with her husband, John, and six month old son in the fall of 1857, from Sweden. She died in April 1858, and was buried near her new house. After . . . — — Map (db m78311) HM
On County Highway 8, 0.5 miles south of 52nd Avenue Southeast, on the right when traveling south.
John Other Day, a Dakota who disagreed with the decision to go to war with the Whites, led a party of sixty-two white men, women and children out of danger when the Dakota attacked the Upper Sioux Agency near Granite Falls. The party left the Agency . . . — — Map (db m76656) HM
On 71st Avenue Southeast (County Highway 3) 1.1 miles west of County Highway 8, on the right when traveling west.
Wakanda is a spiritual place or "where the spirit dwells" in Dakota. The Dakota people named this area before the settlers came to Kandiyohi County. Prior to 1900 there was evidence of this being a place of burial grounds. Over time, erosion and . . . — — Map (db m231706) HM
