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Greater Minnesota

Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye

November 5, 2019
2 min read

Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...

Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town

August 15, 2015
5 min read

The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...

Dead Good Walks

Maple Hill Cemetery

April 18, 2011
2 min read

Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...

Chester Township Cemetery

February 20, 2018
1 min read

For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...

Who the heck was...

Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?

September 10, 2019
4 min read

Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...

Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?

January 22, 2019
2 min read

Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...

Roadtrips

Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia

October 19, 2022
1 min read

The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

Punished Woman’s Lake

March 15, 2023
2 min read

I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

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