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Breckenridge Township is a township in Wilkin County, Minnesota, United States.The population was 234 at the 2000 census. Breckenridge Township was organized in 1857, and named for John C. Breckinridge, a Senator from Kentucky, fourteenth Vice President of the United States, and later Confederate general and the last Confederate Secretary of War.
Joseph Vertin was a merchant who came to the United States in 1852 . He settled in Michigan and opened general stores in Hancock and Calumet (now known as Vertin Gallery [4]). Joseph Vertin returned to Carniola in 1857. [1] At age 18, John Vertin arrived in New York City with his parents and siblings on July 7, 1863, and departed for Michigan.
Breckenridge was also staunchly pro-slavery and was a Major General in the Confederate Army. [9] A post office has been in operation at Breckenridge since 1857. [10] Breckenridge was incorporated in 1908. [9] The city contains one property listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the 1928 Wilkin County Courthouse. [11]
KBMW (1450 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to Breckenridge, Minnesota, serving the Wahpeton-Breckenridge area, owned by Robert Ingstad's I3G Media, LLC. The station airs a mix of country music and news, as well local content such as community calendar, funeral notices, and Swap Shop.
Wilkin County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota.As of the 2020 census, the population of Wilkin County was 6,506. [1] Its county seat is Breckenridge. [2] The county is named for Colonel Alexander Wilkin, a lawyer who served as Minnesota's U.S. marshal and was later killed in the Civil War.
“The Goonies” are officially back. Warner Bros. has hired Potsy Ponciroli to write the script for the sequel, it was announced Friday — almost 40 years after the original movie hit theaters ...
Its readers are the communities of Wahpeton and Breckenridge, Wilkin County, Minnesota. The newspaper was founded in 1971 and is owned by Wick Communications . It had a daily print circulation of 1,832 in 2021.