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27-03970. GNIS feature ID. 2394083 [3] Website. ci.battle-lake.mn.us. Battle Lake is a city in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 857 according to the 2020 census.
73000991 [1] Added to NRHP. June 4, 1973. Morrison Mounds is a historic site north of Battle Lake, Minnesota, United States, consisting of 22 Native American burial mounds, built beginning around 800 B.C. Twenty are conical, one flat-topped and one elongated, all near Otter Tail Lake. The mound group has the oldest radiocarbon date of any in ...
Prospect House (Battle Lake, Minnesota) / 46.285667°N 95.7147228°W / 46.285667; -95.7147228. Prospect House, also known as the Prospect Inn and the Prospect House & Civil War Museum, is a historic building in Battle Lake, Minnesota, United States. James A. "Cap" Colehour bought the property in 1882 and had a house built there ...
121 W. Junius Ave. 46°16′48″N 96°04′30″W. / 46.279921°N 96.07501°W / 46.279921; -96.07501 ( Otter Tail County Courthouse) Fergus Falls. Courthouse built 1921–22, significant as Otter Tail County's longstanding seat of government and its most prominent public building, and for its exemplary Beaux-Arts architecture. [ 21 ...
Glendalough State Park. Glendalough State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, in Otter Tail County near Battle Lake close to Minnesota State Highway 78. It is named after Glendalough in Ireland. The park was once used as a resort and game farm by the owners of Cowles Media Company, owner of what is today the Star Tribune newspaper.
Slaughter Slough is a wetland in southwestern Minnesota, named for being the site of the Lake Shetek Massacre during the Dakota War of 1862. It is located in Murray County east of Lake Shetek. On August 20, 1862, about 25-30 Sisseton warriors and women led by Chief Lean Bear of the Sleepy-Eye band attacked the Euro-American settlers living ...
The Battle of Sugar Point, or the Battle of Leech Lake, was fought on October 5, 1898 between the 3rd U.S. Infantry and members of the Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians in a failed attempt to apprehend Pillager Ojibwe Bugonaygeshig ("Old Bug" or "Hole-In-The-Day"), as the result of a dispute with Indian Service officials on the Leech Lake Reservation in Cass County, Minnesota.
The 3rd Minnesota Infantry Regiment was mustered in by companies at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, between October 2 and November 14, 1861, and was sent to Kentucky on November 14, 1861. It remained on garrison duty in Kentucky and Tennessee until most of the men were captured by Nathan Bedford Forrest at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on July 13, 1862.