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Daniel S. Wilkins was the first settler to arrive in 1865, and he laid out Chippewa City in autumn 1868. Wilkins's cabin there was the location of the first county commissioners' meeting. George W. Frink arrived in Chippewa County in 1867 and made claim to land on the east side of the Chippewa River, where he built a log house in Montevideo.
Windom College was located in Montevideo in the western part of Minnesota. The institute was situated on a high bluff overlooking the valleys of the Minnesota and Chippewa Rivers, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) from the confluence of the streams. It was in the center of a thickly-settled and rich farming section about 250 miles (400 km) in diameter ...
The Swensson Farm Museum is a historic farmstead located in Chippewa County, Minnesota, six miles (10 km) east of Montevideo.Established by Norwegian immigrants Olof and Ingeborg Swensson in the 1880s, the farmstead today serves as open-air museum operated by the Chippewa County Historical Society showcasing pioneer life and Swedish-American heritage.
Montevideo (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ə ˈ v ɪ d i oʊ / MON-tə-VID-ee-oh) [6] is a city and the county seat of Chippewa County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 5,398 at the 2020 census. [3] The area around Montevideo was populated by Native Americans and fur traders during the first half of the 19th Century.
The Minnesota portion of Lake Superior is the largest at 962,700 acres (3,896 km 2) and deepest (at 1,290 ft (390 m), 393 m) body of water in the state. [11] Minnesota has 6,564 natural rivers and streams that cumulatively flow for 69,000 miles (111,000 km). [ 11 ]
This is a list of lakes of Minnesota. Although promoted as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", Minnesota has 11,842 lakes of 10 acres (4.05 ha) or more. [1] The 1968 state survey found 15,291 lake basins, of which 3,257 were dry. [2] If all basins over 2.5 acres were counted, Minnesota would have 21,871 lakes. [3]
Camp Release State Monument is located on the edge of Montevideo, Minnesota, United States, just off Highway 212 in Lac qui Parle County, in the 6-acre Camp Release State Memorial Wayside. [2] The Camp Release Monument stands as a reminder of Minnesota 's early state history.
The township was originally to be called Chippewa Township but later was renamed as that name was already taken for a township in Douglas County. The township was first settled along the timber districts along the Minnesota River. Later immigration filled in the prairies with farmsteads, with the first house being built on the prairie in 1869. [4]