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A John Renniker was killed Northeast of Walnut Grove and is included with those that died at the slough. [6] Walnut Grove was platted in 1874. [7] It was named for a grove of black walnut trees near the original town site. [8] It was incorporated in 1879. [7] Walnut Grove gained more than 250 residents between 2001 and 2006. The residents are ...
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.
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.
The comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS is seen between 2 television transmission towers in Walnut Grove as it prepares to drop below the western horizon on Oct. 13, 2024. ... Photos show ...
North Hero Township is one of the twenty-six townships of Redwood County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 172 at the 2000 census. The population was 172 at the 2000 census. North Hero Township was organized in 1873, and named after North Hero, Vermont .
It is based on about five years of her childhood when the Ingalls family lived at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, during the 1870s. The original dust jacket proclaimed: "The true story of an American pioneer family by the author of Little House in the Big Woods ".
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 .