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Counties of Renville, Redwood, Yellow Medicine, Lincoln & Lyon, Minn. 1874. Andreas, A. T. (Alfred Theodore), 1839-1900. 1:222k. Part of the territory served by ...
This place was first known as “Sleepy Eye” and was platted by Thomas Allison and Walter Breckenridge, September 18, 1872, in sections 29 and 30, of township 110, range 32 west, and was incorporated as a city in 1903.
Volume Two – Sleepy Eye Platted and Organized, (pp 63-138) contains information about the first railroad in sleepy eye, sketches of the town’s first residents, and the government of Sleepy Eye and Brown County including the building of numerous government buildings.
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Coordinates: 44°17′56″N 94°43′24″W. Sleepy Eye is a small city in rural Brown County, Minnesota, United States. The city is named after a famed local Dakota chief from the 1800s. [4][5] The population was 3,599 at the 2010 census. [6] History.
Feb 15, 2020 · Photo, Print, Drawing Downtown block in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. The town got its name from a nearby lake, which in turn was named after Sioux chief Sleepy Eye, who was known for his droopy eye.
Jul 23, 2022 · Chief Ishtakhaba, also known as Chief Sleepy Eye, circa 1850. Ho-Chunk/Winnebago Heritage Plaque along the Minnesota River. Special thanks to the Blue Earth County Historical Society, Minnesota State University, Mankato faculty and staff in Geography, Anthropology, Earth Science and the Water Resources Center.
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Sleepy Eye is located right on Historic Highway 14, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Highway, so if you come that route from the East (like Mankato), you will drive right through it. In fact the real Ingalls family also passed town on the way from Pepin to Walnut Grove.
