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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.88 square miles (2.28 km 2), all of it land. [9] Gibbon is located along Minnesota State Highway 19 at its junction with Sibley County Road 2.
It voted Democratic in every presidential election until William Jennings Bryan’s populist-backed Free Silver campaign drove its voters to William McKinley. Except when voting for Robert La Follette in 1924 and Franklin D. Roosevelt during his two 1930s landslides, Sibley County has been firmly Republican since 1896.
The town of Gibbon in south central Minnesota is named after him, as are Gibbonsville, Idaho; Gibbon, Oregon; Gibbon, Nebraska; [16] and Gibbon, Washington. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The Gibbon River [ 19 ] and Falls in Yellowstone National Park also bear his name after his 1872 expedition there.
Gibbon Village Hall is a former municipal hall in Gibbon, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1895 with medieval-themed Romanesque Revival architecture . [ 3 ] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for its local significance in the theme of architecture. [ 2 ]
Debbie Gibson still holds the record as the youngest female artist to write, produce, and perform a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single, a feat she accomplished at age 17 with “Foolish Beat.”
Assumption is an unincorporated community in Carver and Sibley Counties, Minnesota, United States. The community is located eight miles east-northeast of Green Isle. Nearby places also include Hamburg, Norwood Young America, Bongards, Cologne, and Belle Plaine. The community is home to the Assumption State Wildlife Management Area.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...