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Canby is also well known for high school wrestling. Canby High School won the Minnesota State Team Championship in 1976, 1977, 1979, 1986, 1988, 1994, 1995, 2006. [citation needed] Canby is the home of the Yellow Medicine County Fair which is held annually at the end of Summer.
Shortly after midnight on May 14, 2008, Brandon Swanson (born January 30, 1989) [1] of Marshall, Minnesota, United States, drove his car into a ditch on his way home from celebrating the end of the spring semester with fellow students from Minnesota West Community and Technical College's Canby campus. Uninjured, he got out and called his ...
The Canby Commercial Historic District is a designation applied to the historic downtown of Canby, Minnesota, United States. It comprises 24 contributing properties built from 1892 to the 1930s. [ 2 ]
Yellow Medicine River. The county was established by the Minnesota legislature on March 6, 1871, with Granite Falls as the county seat. Its name comes from Yellow Medicine River, which runs through the eastern part of the county to the Minnesota.
Canby Municipal Airport [1] [3] (ICAO: KCNB, FAA LID: CNB), also known as Myers Field, [2] is a public use airport in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, United States. [2] It is owned by the City of Canby and located one nautical mile (2 km ) north of its central business district . [ 2 ]
Canby is named for Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, [7] a Civil War general who was later killed in the Modoc War by Captain Jack and his group of warriors. The area was known as Baker Prairie [7] when the community was founded in 1857. [8] Canby was platted in 1870. [9] Canby was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on February 15, 1893 ...
The Lund–Hoel House is a historic house museum in Canby, Minnesota, United States.The residence and an adjacent carriage house were built in 1891 for John G. Lund (1868–1908), an influential land speculator, banker, and politician. [2]
The campuses were originally under the jurisdiction of the local school district and offered programs that served the local and regional economy. On July 1, 1985, the four then area technical institutes at Canby, Granite Falls, Jackson, and Pipestone were officially merged to form Southwestern Technical Institute.