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Albert Lea Township (/ ˌ æ l b ər t ˈ l iː / AL-bərt LEE) [3] is a township in Freeborn County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 808 at the 2000 census. Myre-Big Island State Park is within the township. Albert Lea Township was organized in 1857, and named after its primary village, Albert Lea. [4]
Albert Lea, c. 1862 The city is named after Albert Lea Lake, which was named after Albert Miller Lea, a topographer with the United States Dragoons, who surveyed southern Minnesota and northern Iowa in 1835, including the current site of Albert Lea. [8] Captain Nathan Boone, a son of Daniel Boone, was the scout for Lea's unit.
Freeborn County is a county in the state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,895. [2] Its county seat is Albert Lea. [3] Freeborn County comprises the Albert Lea Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Aug. 29—About 107 years after it originally started in downtown Albert Lea, Leutholds is expected to return to the heart of the city in November. Bill and Paula Hertling took over the men's and ...
Dec. 8—St. John's Lutheran Community on Friday announced the addition of an eagle camera for its widely followed eagle's nest at its Fountain Lake campus. The organization installed a live ...
Mar. 21—Update (6:45 a.m. Friday): One person died Thursday night after a crash involving a semi and pickup on Interstate 90 near Albert Lea. The Minnesota State Patrol is expected to release ...
The coffin of John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia from 1941 to 1945, lying in state inside King's Hall, Old Parliament House, Canberra, on July 6, 1945. A state funeral is a public funeral ceremony, observing the strict rules of protocol, held to honour people of national significance.
Jun. 23—Main Street in Albert Lea was closed to motorists Sunday afternoon as floodwaters continued to rise. Barricades were up on all sides of the flooding. City crews had put sandbags along ...