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Appleton is a city in Swift County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was 1,412 at the 2010 census . [ 4 ] The town is home to a vacant medium-security prison , the Prairie Correctional Facility , which is wholly owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America .
Appleton City Hall is a historic municipal building in Appleton, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1895 as one of the few monumental 19th-century buildings in rural western Minnesota . It initially housed Appleton's government offices, fire department, and jail on the ground floor and an auditorium on the upper floor. [ 2 ]
Appleton Township is a township in Swift County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 223 at the 2021 census. The population was 223 at the 2021 census. [ 4 ]
The Appleton Historical Society's History Museum and Research Center has occupied 128 N. Durkee St. since 2016. The building will be sold. The Franklin building dates to 1931.
The Prairie Correctional Facility is a vacant, 1,600-bed private prison located in Appleton, Minnesota. Prairie was built by the city of Appleton and first opened, empty, in 1992. In March 1993 the city reached an agreement with the Puerto Rico Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to fill all 516 beds.
Swift County is in west central Minnesota and consists of 757 square miles (2,000 km 2) with three tiers of seven townships each.It was established on February 18, 1870, and named for Henry Adoniram Swift, the third governor of Minnesota (1863–64).
Gethsemane Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church building in Appleton, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1879 during the episcopate of pioneer Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple. It was originally a wooden-frame structure with the board and batten walls and lancet windows typical of Carpenter Gothic style. Around 1920 the interior ...
First authorized in 1933–34, MN 7 ran between Appleton and the Twin Cities. [1] [2] At the time, the highway was under construction between Ortonville and Appleton. From its junction with MN 119, MN 7 was a gravel road southeasterly to Montevideo before turn east on a bituminous surface to Clara City. From there east to the Waconia area, the ...