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Ole Edvart Rølvaag (Urban East Norwegian: [ˈûːlə ˈɛ̀dːvɑʈ ˈrø̂ːlvoːɡ]; Rølvåg in modern Norwegian, Rolvaag in English orthography) (April 22, 1876 – November 5, 1931) was a Norwegian-American novelist and professor who became well known for his writings regarding the Norwegian American immigrant experience.
The campus, including its 430-acre (170 ha) natural lands, is 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Northfield, Minnesota. [8] Northfield is also the home of its neighbor and friendly rival, Carleton College. Between 1995 and 2020, 154 St. Olaf graduates were named Fulbright Scholars and 35 received Goldwater Scholarships. [9] [10]
Northfield Mount Hermon School, boarding school in Massachusetts towns of Northfield and Gill Northfield School & Sports College , comprehensive secondary school in Billingham, England Northfield School of the Liberal Arts , classical Christian school in Wichita, Kansas
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Northfield is a city in Dakota and Rice counties in the State of Minnesota. It is mostly in Rice County, with a small portion in Dakota County. The population was 20,790 at the 2020 census. [4] Northfield is 40 miles south of the downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul and is an exurb of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.
Northfield, the site of a Native American community prior to English colonization, was settled in 1672, abandoned during King Philip's War (1675–78), briefly resettled, and again abandoned for the duration of King William's War and Queen Anne's War (1690-1713). The community's permanent settlement history begins in 1714, although the site of ...
Originally constructed in 1934, Northfield Park racetrack was originally known as Sportsman Park, with a focus on midget car racing.After 20 years as a successful car racing facility, interest began to wane and in 1956, Sportsman Park was demolished to make way for what would eventually become one of the nation's premier harness racing tracks under the leadership of Carl Milstein, a well known ...
Groves helped his father manage the family farm, but after the death of his father and stepmother, he decided to move west. In 1831 he travelled to Michigan and purchased 160 acres in Northfield Township. Later that year he brought his second wife and three children from his first marriage to Michigan.