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Minnesota State Highway 227
Minnesota State Highway 227 (MN 227) was a highway in north-central Minnesota, which ran from its intersection with U.S. Highway 71 and Wadena County Road 8 in Sebeka and continued east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with Wadena County Roads 12 and 14 in Nimrod near the Crow Wing River. The route was decommissioned in 2012 and it became an extension of Wadena County Road 12. Route description Highway 227 served as an east–west route between Sebeka and Nimrod in north-central Minnesota. Highway 227 was also known as ''Minnesota Avenue'' in Sebeka. The route crossed the Redeye River. The route was legally defined as Route 227 in the Minnesota Statutes. History Highway 227 was authorized on July 1, 1949. The western half of the route was paved when it was marked. The remainder was paved in 1952. Major intersections References External links {{Attached KML, display=title,inlineHighway 227 at the Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page 227 Year 227 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebeka, Minnesota
Sebeka ( ) is a city in Wadena County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was 711 at the 2010 census. The name comes from an Ojibwe word meaning "town by the water". U.S. Highway 71, State Highway 227, and the historic Jefferson Highway (now Jefferson Avenue), are three of the main routes in the city. History Sebeka originally grew around the depot of the K-line branch of the Great Northern Railway, which first came through the area in 1892. The first major industry in the area was logging. The town's first store was the Anderson Pioneer Store.http://www.sebeka.com/AboutUs/history.html The town was incorporated on March 19, 1898. Its population has gone from 233 in 1900 to a peak of 818 in 1960. Point of interest In the Sebeka High School building is a mural, painted in 1938, by artist Richard Haines that demonstrates the casein paint process as used in fresco-painting. Murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County 14
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoting a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count (earl) or a viscount.The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, C. W. Onions (Ed.), 1966, Oxford University Press Literal equivalents in other languages, derived from the equivalent of "count", are now seldom used officially, including , , , , , , , and ''zhupa'' in Slavic languages; terms equivalent to commune/community are now often instead used. When the Normans conquered England, they brought the term with them. The Saxons had already established the districts that became the historic counties of England, calling them shires;Vision of Britai– Type details for ancient county. Retrieved 31 March 2012 many county names derive from the name of the county town (county seat) with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
