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Wadena County Historical Society Museum. The newly organized Minnesota Legislature created the county on June 11, 1858. A settlement began at the future city of Wadena in 1871, [2] and by 1873 a post office was in operation there. [3] The settlement was designated the county seat when the state legislature organized the county on February 21, 1873.
The Old Wadena Historic District is a concentration of historical archaeology sites now largely contained within Old Wadena County Park in Thomastown Township, Minnesota, United States. Features include the sites of four successive trading posts established in 1782, 1792, 1825, and 1856; the original townsite of Wadena on the Red River Trails ...
Wadena County Historical Society Museum. The first permanent settlement at Wadena was made in 1871. [7] The city is named after Chief Wadena, an Ojibwe Indian chief of the late 19th century in northwestern Minnesota. [8] A post office has been in operation at Wadena since 1873. [9] Wadena was incorporated in 1881. [7]
Wadena County, Minnesota. Wadena County Historical Society; ... Yellow Medicine County Historical Society; Granite Falls Historical Society; Statewide/Topical
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) This is a list of sites in Minnesota which are included in the National Register of Historic Places. There are more than 1,700 properties and historic districts listed on the NRHP; each of Minnesota's 87 counties has at least 2 listings. Twenty-two ...
The village of Shell City was established by William E. Kindred as the Kindred post office in 1879. The townsite was then sold to Francis M. Yoder and Sewall Chandler in 1881 and the name was changed to Shell City in 1882.
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The former Wadena Fire and City Hall is a historic government building in Wadena, Minnesota, United States, built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 for having local significance in the theme of politics/government. [ 2 ]