The pocket guide to Minnesota place names : the stories behind 1,200 places in the North Star State

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Title:

The pocket guide to Minnesota place names : the stories behind 1,200 places in the North Star State

Author:

Fedo, Michael W., author.

ISBN:

9780873514248

Edition:

3rd ed.

Publication Information:

St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2002.

Physical Description:

xi, 186 p. : map.

General Note:

Abridged ed. of: Minnesota place names / Warren Upham. 3rd ed., rev. and enl. 2001.

Subject Term:

Names, Geographical -- Minnesota.

Geographic Term:

Minnesota -- History, Local.

Added Author:

Upham, Warren, 1850-1934.

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)	977.6 FED	Searching... Unknown
Searching... R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)	977.6 FED	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Stillwater Public Library	977.6 FED	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Stillwater Public Library	MN R 977.6 FED	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Wildwood Library (Mahtomedi)	977.6 FED	Searching... Unknown

Within our state's borders you'll find such exotic place names as Amor and Darling, Fertile and Conception, Comfort and Happyland, Looneyville and Nimrod, Flour Lake and the Diarrhoea River, Great Scott and Eureka, Home and Nowhere, Moonshine and Whiskey Creek, Stringtown and Pig's Eye, Snowball and North Pole, Embarrass and Kiester, Coin and Money Creek, and Chickentown and Bull Moose. But how did these places get such unusual names? Wonder no longer as author Michael Fedo relates the curious and prosaic ways in which a place gets named.

Place names tell a rich history of how our state was settled. This compact guide presents the fascinating stories behind over 1,200 Minnesota place names. Included are all the names you'd expect--counties, larger towns and cities, major lakes and rivers--as well as the curious and odd. Culled from over 20,000 entries in the classic work Minnesota Place Names by Warren Upham, this concise guide is the perfect companion for anyone who travels the highways and waterways of the North Star state.

Introduction	p. vii
Minnesota Place Names	p. 3
Appendix Names Arranged by County	p. 173

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