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Ernest P. Anderson, businessman and Minnesota state legislator; Frank C. Mars, founder of Mars, Incorporated, was born in Hancock, Minnesota but lived in Wadena around the time of his son Forrest's birth in 1904. Forrest Mars Sr., son of Frank C. Mars and eventual owner of Mars, Incorporated and M&M's, was born in Wadena but moved away as a child.
Janet Karvonen was born and raised in New York Mills, Minnesota, where she became a pioneer for girls basketball in Minnesota. Karvonen scored over 3,000 points in her high school career and led New York Mills to state championships in 1977, 1978, and 1979 and a third-place finish in 1980.
Wadena County Historical Society Museum. The newly organized Minnesota Legislature created the county on June 11, 1858. A settlement began at the future city of Wadena in 1871, [2] and by 1873 a post office was in operation there. [3] The settlement was designated the county seat when the state legislature organized the county on February 21, 1873.
Leaf River, or Leafriver, is a ghost town in section 22 of Leaf River Township, Wadena County, Minnesota, United States.Today the town has a population around 50. There is a restaurant, a golf course, an old school house and a residential community.
Wadena Township is a township in Wadena County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,010 at the 2000 census. The population was 1,010 at the 2000 census. Geography
Two people died when a mobile home exploded in Minnesota early Tuesday in a blast heard miles away. The explosion in Princeton prompted several calls to 911 shortly after 4 a.m., Mille Lacs County ...
Thomastown Township is a township in Wadena County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 714 at the 2000 census. The population was 714 at the 2000 census. Thomastown Township was named for Thomas Scott, an early settler.
The history of the forest mirrors that of the majority of northern Minnesota. The area was inhabited by the Ojibwe and the Dakota prior to European settlement.The French fur traders were the first Europeans to arrive to the area in the early eighteenth century, and controlled the fur trade until the 1760s, when British and Canadians came to dominate.