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The Kiel and Morgan Hotel in
Lynd, Minnesota Lynd is a city in Lyon County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 448 at the 2010 census. Lynd is a small but growing community in southwestern Minnesota. The development of a new golf course and an additional housing development hav ...
, United States, was the building first used on a regular basis as the Lyon County Courthouse. In 1869, the
Minnesota Legislature The Minnesota Legislature is the bicameral legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota consisting of two houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives. Senators are elected from 67 single-member districts. In order to account for decennia ...
passed an enabling act dividing Lyon County from
Redwood County Redwood County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census the population was 15,425. Its county seat is Redwood Falls, along the Redwood River near its confluence with the Minnesota River. The Lower Sioux Indian Reserva ...
. Governor William R. Marshall appointed several officials authorized to form a county government. On August 12, 1870, the county commissioners held their first meeting in the home of Luman Ticknor in upper Lynd. The hotel was built in 1871 by Allen D. Morgan and Levi Kiel. Because of the small population in the area, the hotel served variously as the seat of county government, post office, store, and church. The Kiel and Morgan Hotel is an important historical place because it is one of the few remaining examples of the type of buildings that were used for both private and government meeting places during the early settlement of the western Minnesota counties. After the county government moved to Marshall, where it remains today, the hotel was used as a farm house. In 1990, the owner Eva Schrunk donated the property to the city of Lynd.


Sources

Rose, A.P. ''History of Lyon County, Minnesota''.


References

{{National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota Buildings and structures in Lyon County, Minnesota County courthouses in Minnesota Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota National Register of Historic Places in Lyon County, Minnesota Former courthouses in Minnesota