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Counties of Renville, Redwood, Yellow Medicine, Lincoln & Lyon, Minn. 1874. Andreas, A. T. (Alfred Theodore), 1839-1900. 1:222k.
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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.
Included are copies of some research material, five plat maps of Evan, Minnesota dated 1896-1904, and information about politics, life, and religion in Sleepy Eye.
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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. It is at the junction of the Redwood Falls branch and the main line of the old Winona & St. Peter railroad, now controlled by ...
Jan 14, 2015 · The community is named after Sleepy Eye, a long ago chief of the Lower Sisseton Dakota. You’ll spot his image on the water tower, on the town’s welcome sign, on the public school website (the school mascot remains the Indians) and probably additional places. Sleepy Eye seems to take positive historical pride in its name. And it should.
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Aug 20, 2019 · I am proud to have grown up on the southwestern Minnesota prairie in rural Redwood County. I once lived and worked for the newspaper in Sleepy Eye, located in Brown County next to my county of origin.
