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2397182 [2] Website. www.walnutgrovemn.org. Walnut Grove is a city in Redwood County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 871 at the 2010 census. [4] Another name formerly associated with the area is Walnut Station.
Minnesota River. Plum Creek [1] is a 35.4-mile-long (57.0 km) [2] stream near the city of Walnut Grove, Minnesota. It passes to the northwest of the town, flowing northeasterly to the Cottonwood River, with its waters then flowing to the Minnesota River and eventually the Mississippi River. Plum Creek lends its name to a regional library network.
By the Shores of Silver Lake. On the Banks of Plum Creek is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1937, the fourth of nine books in her Little House series. It is based on a few years of her childhood when the Ingalls family lived at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, during the 1870s.
In the book On the Banks of Plum Creek (published in 1939), the third volume of her fictionalized history which takes place around 1874, the Ingalls family moves from Kansas to an area near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, settling in a dugout on the banks of Plum Creek. [14] Laura Ingalls Wilder dugout location
Little House on the Prairie (Little House: A New Beginning in its ninth and final season) is an American Western historical drama television series about the Ingalls family, who live on a farm on Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s–90s. Charles, Caroline, Laura, Mary, and Carrie Ingalls are respectively portrayed by Michael ...
In 1874, when Wilder was seven years old, the family left their home near Pepin for the second time, and settled just outside Walnut Grove, Minnesota.Walnut Grove may be the most recognized name of all the towns Wilder wrote about in her books (although it is the only town she did not mention by name) because Michael Landon's television series Little House on the Prairie of the 1970s and 1980s ...
Nellie's parents, Margaret (1836–1908) Owens and William (1836–1920) did, as Ingalls describes, run the local mercantile in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. [ 3 ] Later in her life, around 1883, the Owens family moved to California; probably via the Oregon Trail .
1882 farm of Charles Duncan Gilfillan (1831–1902) and his son (1872–1962), significant for their role in developing St. Paul and Redwood County, and their promotion of progressive farming in southwest Minnesota.