|
Leaf River, Minnesota
Leaf River, or Leafriver, is a ghost town in section 22 of Leaf River Township, Wadena County, Minnesota, United States.Today the town has a population around 50. There is a restaurant, a golf course, an old school house and a residential community. History The village of Leaf River had a post office from 1880 until 1882, and again from 1902 until 1908. It was served by a station of the Great Northern Railway. Etymology The village received its name from the Leaf River, which was in turn named for the Leaf Mountains The Leaf Hills Moraines, sometimes called the Leaf Mountains, are a range of hills in west-central Minnesota. The land does not exhibit many characteristics of mountains, but nevertheless rises typically to a height of above the surrounding farmla ..., which were called by the Ojibwa ''Gaaskibag-wajiwan''. This name was translated by Gilfillan as "Rustling Leaf Mountains." Notes Ghost towns in Minnesota Former populated places in Wadena County, Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Town
Ghost Town(s) or Ghosttown may refer to: * Ghost town, a town that has been abandoned Film and television * ''Ghost Town'' (1936 film), an American Western film by Harry L. Fraser * ''Ghost Town'' (1956 film), an American Western film by Allen H. Miner * ''Ghost Town'' (1988 film), an American horror film by Richard McCarthy (as Richard Governor) * ''Ghost Town'' (2008 film), an American fantasy comedy film by David Koepp * ''Ghost Town'', a 2008 TV film featuring Billy Drago * '' Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns'', a 2005–2006 British paranormal reality television series * "Ghost Town" (''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''), a 2009 TV episode Literature * ''Ghost Town'' (''Lucky Luke'') or ''La Ville fantôme'', a 1965 ''Lucky Luke'' comic *''Ghost Town'', a Beacon Street Girls novel by Annie Bryant *''Ghost Town'', a 1998 novel by Robert Coover *''Ghosttown'', a 2007 novel by Douglas Anne Munson Music * Ghost Town (band), an American electronic band * ''Ghost Town'', a 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leaf River Township, Minnesota
Leaf River Township is a township in Wadena County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 515 at the 2000 census. Leaf River Township was named after the Leaf River. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , all of it land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 515 people, 174 households, and 135 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 196 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the township was 94.37% White, 2.14% African American, 1.75% Native American, 0.58% Asian, 0.19% Pacific Islander, and 0.97% from two or more races. There were 174 households, out of which 31.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 75.9% were married couples living together, 0.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.4% were non-families. 21.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wadena County, Minnesota
Wadena County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,065. Its county seat is Wadena. History The newly organized Minnesota Legislature created the county on June 11, 1858. A settlement began at the future city of Wadena in 1871, and by 1873 a post office was in operation there. The settlement was designated the county seat when the state legislature organized the county on February 21, 1873. The town took the name of a trading post 15 miles (24 km) to the east, which had flourished for several years but was largely abandoned by that time. The trading post was named for Chief Wadena, an Ojibwe Indian chief of the late 19th century in northwestern Minnesota. Wadena County comprises 15 townships, first surveyed in 1863. Each township is six miles square and contains 36 sections of land (with the exception of Bullard and Thomastown, which have a slightly different configuration because their boundaries are aligned with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to intensive agriculture; deciduous forests in the southeast, now partially cleared, farmed, and settled; and the less populated North Woods, used for mining, forestry, and recreation. Roughly a third of the state is covered in forests, and it is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" for having over 14,000 bodies of fresh water of at least ten acres. More than 60% of Minnesotans live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, known as the "Twin Cities", the state's main political, economic, and cultural hub. With a population of about 3.7 million, the Twin Cities is the 16th largest metropolitan area in the U.S. Other minor metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas in the state include Duluth, Mankato, Moorhead, Rochester, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Northern Railway (U
Great Northern Railway or Great Northern Railroad may refer to: Australia *Great Northern Railway (Queensland) in Australia *Great Northern Rail Services in Victoria, Australia *Central Australia Railway was known as the great Northern Railway in the 1890s in South Australia *Main North railway line, New South Wales (Australia) Canada *Great Northern Railway of Canada Ireland * Great Northern Railway (Ireland) New Zealand *Kingston Branch (New Zealand) in Southland *Main North Line, New Zealand and Waiau Branch in Canterbury United Kingdom *Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) **Thameslink and Great Northern, a current operator of trains on this route United States * Great Northern Railway (U.S.), now part of the BNSF Railway system *International – Great Northern Railroad in Texas, U.S., now part of the Union Pacific Railroad *New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern The New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern was a gauge railway originally commissioned by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leaf River (Minnesota)
The Leaf River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed December 26, 2012 tributary of the Crow Wing River in west-central Minnesota in the United States. Via the Crow Wing, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed. Course The Leaf rises from the Leaf Lakes chain (West, Middle and East) in northeastern Otter Tail County and flows generally east past the town of Bluffton into southern Wadena County. It joins the Crow Wing River from the west in Thomastown Township, about north-northwest of the town of Staples and about upstream of the mouth of the Partridge River. On the Crow between the Leaf and Partridge rivers are sites of pre-settlement fur trading posts. The Leaf's largest tributaries are the Wing River and the Redeye River, both of which join it in Wadena County. Culture Leaf River serves as land-cession boundary for the 1847 Treaty of Washington, signed between the Pillager Chippewas an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leaf Mountains
The Leaf Hills Moraines, sometimes called the Leaf Mountains, are a range of hills in west-central Minnesota. The land does not exhibit many characteristics of mountains, but nevertheless rises typically to a height of above the surrounding farmland, occasionally reaching higher than . The name of this range of hills is translated from the Anishinaabe language, Ojibwe ''Gaaskibag-wajiwan'', which was interpreted by Joseph Gilfillan, Gilfillan as “Rustling Leaf Mountains.” The name is also shared by Leaf Mountain Township, Minnesota, Leaf Mountain Township, the two Leaf Lakes ("''Gaaskibag-wajiwi-zaaga'iganan''"), and the Leaf River (Minnesota), Leaf River ("''Gaaskibag-wajiwi-ziibi''"), all named for the hills. In turn, the hills in Ojibwe are named after Inspiration Peak ("''Gaaskibag-wajiw''"), a prominent hill in this area. Description The hills are described by Warren Upham, Upham as "running southeast from Fergus Falls to the south line of the county and thence east and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ojibwa
The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Saulteaux are an Anishinaabe people in what is currently southern Canada, the northern Midwestern United States, and Northern Plains. According to the U.S. census, in the United States Ojibwe people are one of the largest tribal populations among Native American peoples. In Canada, they are the second-largest First Nations population, surpassed only by the Cree. They are one of the most numerous Indigenous Peoples north of the Rio Grande. The Ojibwe population is approximately 320,000 people, with 170,742 living in the United States , and approximately 160,000 living in Canada. In the United States, there are 77,940 mainline Ojibwe; 76,760 Saulteaux; and 8,770 Mississauga, organized in 125 bands. In Canada, they live from western Quebec to eastern British Columbia. The Ojibwe language is Anishinaabemowin, a branch of the Algonquian language family. They are part of the Council of Three Fires (which also include the Odawa and Potawatomi) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Gilfillan
Joseph Alexander Gilfillan (1838 – November 18, 1913) was an Episcopal missionary to Native Americans of the Ojibwa Tribe on White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota during 35 years from 1873 until 1908. Biography Joseph Alexander Gilfillan was born October 23, 1838, in Gorticross, County Londonderry, Ireland to Alexander Gilfillan and his wife Margaret. He married Harriet Woodbridge Cook April 19, 1877. He graduated from the General Theological Seminary, New York, in 1869. From 1869 until 1873 he was rector successively of two English churches in Minnesota. From June, 1873, until, September, 1908, he served as missionary to the Ojibwas at White Earth. He worked diligently and earnestly to learn the Ojibwe language, to ascertain and record the origins of place names in the areas where he worked, to perform accurate and worthy translations of the Ojibwe place names into English, and to encourage that the names so recorded continue to be used in one form or another a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Towns In Minnesota
This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Minnesota, a northern state in the United States of America. * Ashton * Beaver * Blue Eagle * Belden, Minnesota * Betcher, Minnesota * Bodum * Bruce * Carnegie * Cazenovia * Chengwatana * Childs * Chippewa City, Minnesota * Cisco * Clayton * Clear Grit, Minnesota * Costin Village * Cuba, Minnesota * Dale * Dickinson, Minnesota * Dorothy * Elcor * Elliota, Minnesota * Enterprise * Fairland, Minnesota * Fairpoint, Minnesota * Fermoy * Florence, Goodhue County, Minnesota * Forestville (see also Forestville Mystery Cave State Park) * Harlis, Minnesota * Frankford, Minnesota Mower County * Garen * Grover * Hamilton, Minnesota Fillmore County * Homedahl * Huot * Imogene * Lake Addie, Minnesota * Leaf River * Lewiston * Lewisville * London * Lude * Mallard * Manganese * Muskoda * New Prairie * Nininger * Oak Lake * Old Crow Wing * Old Wadena * Parkton * Pelan * Philbrook * Pinewood * Pitt *Point ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
