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Orrin Thompson (August 26, 1913 – March 7, 1995) was one of the largest real-estate developers in the United States. In the 1950s, a time when the post World War II population was exploding and in need of housing, he built and sold thousands of one-family homes, primarily in Minnesota.
Dakota County. The earliest European settlement occurred on what is now Picnic Island, in 1819, where Colonel Henry Leavenworth built a stockade fort called "St. Peter's Cantonment" or "New Hope;" there materials were assembled for the construction of Fort Snelling, to be built on the bluff on the north side of the Minnesota River. [2]
Oberon, North Dakota to Esmond, North Dakota; Shortly after it began operations, the Red River Valley and Western Railroad acquired a 19-mile (31 km) rail line between Oakes, North Dakota and Hecla, South Dakota from the Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern Railroad. It abandoned 18 miles (29 km) of this rail line, beginning just south of Oakes ...
Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota is a non-fiction book on Dakota history in Minnesota which focuses on the Dakota connection to location and language.The book is written by Dakota historian and professor Gwen Westerman (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate) and Bruce M. White, with a foreword by Glenn Wasicuna (Sioux Valley Dakota Nation).
Dakota County is the third-most populous county in the U.S. state of Minnesota, located in the east central portion of the state.As of the 2020 census, the population was 439,882.
Plantilla:Comtat de Dakota (Minnesota) Usage on cdo.wikipedia.org Dakota Gông (Minnesota) Usage on ceb.wikipedia.org Dakota County (kondado sa Tinipong Bansa, Minnesota) Usage on cy.wikipedia.org Dakota County, Minnesota; View more global usage of this file.
The Dakota Rail Trail runs 28.1 miles (42.6 km) from Wayzata to Lester Prairie, Minnesota. It is on part of the former track bed of the Hutchinson Spur of the Great Northern Railway . The railway line helped bring wheat and raw materials from Central Minnesota to the flour mills , factories and warehouses in Minneapolis from 1885 until 2001.
Dakota is a city in Winona County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 295 at the 2020 census. [3] It is located between Winona and La Crosse along Interstate 90. U.S. Highways 61 and 14 are briefly co-signed with Interstate 90 at this point. Other routes include Winona County Road 12, the Apple Blossom Scenic Drive.