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Menards sold the Menard Building Division in 1994, racking up 36 years in the pole building industry. Menards of East Madison, Wisconsin, pictured in 2012 (closed and relocated to Sun Prairie in 2018) [6] Menards was founded as Menard Cashway Lumber. In the mid-1980s, the "Cashway Lumber" name was dropped and the business became simply known to ...
Menards store in Lafayette, Indiana. Menard opened his first hardware store in 1964. [11] As of 2021, his company owned 335 Menards stores and 12 distribution centers. As of 2005, Menards grossed an estimated $5.5 billion in sales. Menard had a net worth of $8.6 billion in 2013, according to the Forbes 400, and is the richest person in ...
Willmar was established as the county seat in 1871 and was incorporated as a village in 1874 and as a city in 1901. [9] Willmar was the site of a bank robbery by the Machine Gun Kelly gang on July 15, 1930. They robbed the Bank of Willmar (later Otto Bremer Trust) of about $70,000 (equivalent to $1,277,000 in 2023) and wounded three people. [10]
Kandiyohi County is named for a Dakota word meaning "where the buffalo fish come". [5] (kandi’ - the buffalo fish + oh-hi’-yu - v. of hiyu - to come through). [6]It was organized on March 20, 1858, with Kandiyohi established as the county seat in 1870 (it was then called Kandiyohi Station, as it was merely a stop on the railroad line).
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Willmar Township is a township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 661 at the 2000 census. The population was 661 at the 2000 census. History
July 24, 1986 (Off County Highway 5: Willmar vicinity: Circa-1858 log cabin, one of Kandiyohi County's oldest buildings on its original site and a rare vestige of its Euro-American settlement prior to the Dakota War of 1862, in which numerous pioneers were killed (including two Endresons) and most of the rest abandoned the area for several years. [8]
Gamble-Skogmo Inc. was an American conglomerate of retail chains and other businesses that was headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.Business operated or franchised by Gamble-Skogmo included Gambles hardware and auto supply stores, Woman's World and Mode O'Day clothing stores, J.M. McDonald department stores, Leath Furniture stores, Tempo and Buckeye Mart Discount Stores, Howard's ...