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saukcentre.gov. Sauk Centre (/ sɔːk / SAWK) [ 7 ] is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 4,555 at the 2020 census. [ 4 ] Sauk Centre is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area. Sauk Centre is the birthplace of Sinclair Lewis, a novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."
Daily newspapers. According to the Minnesota Newspaper Association in 2020, there were 24 daily newspapers in print in Minnesota. [4] As of 2022, The Star Tribune has the largest print circulation in the state. The table below lists these daily newspapers that are printed at least five days a week. Many also have on-line and Facebook sites for ...
68000027 [1] Designated NHL. May 23, 1968. The Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States. From 1889 until 1902 it was the home of young Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951), who would become the most famous American novelist of the 1920s and the first American to ...
1420930923. Main Street is a novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920. Satirizing small-town life, Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis's most famous book and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. The story is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis ...
David Carroll King, 63, of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, was sentenced in Mower County District Court in a case that dates back to Dec. 20, 2021, when he was arrested in the early morning hours. He was ...
1883 Todd County Court House in Long Prairie, Minnesota. Long Prairie is a town in Todd County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 3,458 at the 2010 census. [5] By the 2020 Decennial Census the population had grown to 3,661. [6] It is the county seat. [7] and the oldest town in the County.
The Palmer House is a historic hotel in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1901 and expanded in 1916. [2] The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for having local significance in the themes of commerce and social history. [3] It was nominated for being an example of a once-common hotel type ...