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The unofficial nicknames listed here have been in use for a long time or have gained wide currency. Anoka – Halloween Capital of the World [3] Albert Lea – The Land Between the Lakes [4] Austin – Spamtown USA [5][6] Bemidji – First City on the Mississippi [7] Braham – Homemade Pie Capital of Minnesota [8] Duluth. The Zenith City [9]
Lake Bemidji. Bena – from Ojibwe bine: grouse or partridge [73] Chanhassen – Dakota for "sugar maple" [74] Chaska – named for the founding business Shaska Company, which takes its name from the given name for a first born son in Dakota Chaska[75] Chengwatana – from Ojibwe Zhingwaadena: "Pine-town". Chokio. Cohasset.
Lake Wobegon. Lake Wobegon is a fictional town created by Garrison Keillor as the setting of the recurring segment "News from Lake Wobegon" for the radio program A Prairie Home Companion broadcast from Saint Paul, Minnesota. The fictional town serves as the setting for many of Keillor's stories and novels, gaining an international audience with ...
Minnesota. Harmony. Local legend has it that this town was named when residents were engaged in a tense debate over what the town was named and an onlooker stepped in saying, "Let’s have Harmony ...
Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including especially short or long names. These names often have an unintended effect or double-meaning when read by ...
Gu-Win, Alabama. Faced with annexation by the nearby town of Guin, the community of about 150 known as Ear Gap decided to incorporate in 1956. Residents adopted their new name from the Gu-Win ...
This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Minnesota, a northern state in the United States of America. Ashton. Belden. Betcher. Bodum. Bruce. Carnegie. Cazenovia. Chengwatana.
Map of the United States with Minnesota highlighted. Minnesota is a state situated in the Midwestern United States.According to the 2020 United States census, Minnesota is the 22nd most populous state with 5,706,494 inhabitants but the 14th largest by land area, spanning 79,626.74 square miles (206,232.3 km 2) of land. [1]