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Knute Nelson Memorial Park was the home of the Alexandria Blue Anchors of the Northwoods League, a collegiate summer baseball league. The team's first game was played on June 1, 2001, when former Major League Baseball reliever Goose Gossage threw out the first pitch.
Knute Nelson (born Knud Evanger; February 2, 1843 – April 28, 1923) was a Norwegian-born American attorney and politician active in Wisconsin and Minnesota.A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the Wisconsin and Minnesota legislatures and to the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate from Minnesota, and served as the 12th governor of ...
Knute Nelson Memorial. Knute Nelson was born in Evanger, Voss, Norway, on February 2, 1843. He is Minnesota's first foreign-born governor. During the American Civil War he served in the 4th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry (1861–1864). Nelson was governor of Minnesota from January 4, 1893, to January 31, 1895.
Knute Nelson statue at the Minnesota State Capitol, St. Paul, Minnesota in 1925. Much of the original art is allegorical . Gilbert's trips to Europe encouraged his ideas, but he was more directly influenced by the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
These were the first of several statues he did at the Capitol including three on the Capitol grounds, Knute Nelson in 1928, Leif Erikson in 1949, and the Earthbound Monument in 1956. [25] The statue of James Shields by Chicago artist Frederick Cleveland Hibbard is a second casting with the original at the Carroll County Courthouse , Carrollton ...
A nonprofit paying to move Knute Rockne's first home in South Bend faces backlash after it hired a company that cut public trees without a permit.
South Bend approved a plan to move Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne's former home this May, weeks after delaying a vote. Legal questions remain.
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