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|official_name = Norseland |
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The community is located at the junction of [[Minnesota State Highway 22]] and County Road 52. It is part of the [[Mankato, Minnesota|Mankato]]–[[North Mankato, Minnesota|North Mankato]] [[Mankato-North Mankato metropolitan area|Metropolitan Statistical Area]]. |
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|image_caption = The Norseland General Store, built circa 1900 |
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==History== |
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Norseland celebrated it's 150th year in June 2008. |
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The general store built in 1858 closed in May 2006. |
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|map_caption = Location of the community of Norseland<br>within Lake Prairie Township, Nicollet County |
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Norseland has never had a council or government. It has always been unincorporated, but the fabric of the community is strong and held together by the Lutheran congregations flanking the hamlet by a quarter mile on each side. |
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The geographic characteristics of Norseland include standing at the edge of the prairie. The Eastern Big Woods deciduous biome stretches westward a bit from the Minnesota River bluffs here. A small lake, Sand Lake, and several ponds and sloughs lie just northeast of the settled area. The surrounding land to the south, west and north is more akin to the plains and has been almost completely plowed or has been developed as farm property. It is in Lake Prairie township in Nicollet County. |
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|subdivision_name2 = [[Nicollet County, Minnesota|Nicollet]] |
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|subdivision_name3 = [[Lake Prairie Township, Nicollet County, Minnesota|Lake Prairie Township]] |
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In addition to two large cemeteries adjacent to the churches dating back to the late 1850s, there are two small ones including The New Sweden Indian Attack cemetery on Highway 22 next to the Norseland sign as you drive from the east. Several people buried there died as a result of the 1862 Dakota War. Dakota people occupied the area for many centuries prior to the arrival of Europeans in the 1850s. The Treaty of Traverse de Sioux, July 23, 1851, was signed 10 miles east on the banks of the Minnesota River in St. Peter, MN. This opened the territory of the Dakota-Sissiton and Wahpeton Bands to those immigrants willing to brave the winters; mostly Swedes and Norwegians. But the Swedes came first. |
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The village has approximately 8 houses, an agricultural cooperative, and a boy scout camp. In addition to shuttered Norseland Store, which used to have a small egg processing operation, there was a gas station, feed service, welding/repair shop, creamery, butcher shop (with lockers) and even a tack store long ago. The locale also contains two churches; Norseland Lutheran Church ([[Evangelical Lutheran Synod|ELS]]) and [https://gustavus.edu/library/archives/LCA0012.php Scandian Grove Lutheran Church] ([[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America|ELCA]]). The community has never had a school system, so the bonds of many neighbors center around the churches. The traditional school district boundaries of Nicollet, Sibley East (Gaylord) and St. Peter converge at Norseland. Young people in the community attended these schools or private schools or Le Sueur, whose boundary is nearby also. The most central shared meeting place for those of both churches was the General Store. In later years it had icons on its sign indicating it had been there from the covered wagon to the space shuttle. The population of Norseland, if you count the homes adjacent to the churches and those between, has probably never exceeded 100. It is now less than 50 in the 8 or so homes closest to the store. People might consider themselves to be from Norseland for the surrounding 2–3 miles. |
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|timezone = [[Central Time Zone|Central (CST)]] |
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|postal_code = 56082 |
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|area_code = [[Area code 507|507]] |
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|blank_info = 654849<ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis|654849|Norseland, Minnesota}}</ref> |
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[[File:2013-0415-NorselandGeneralStore.jpg|250px|thumb|right|The [[Norseland General Store]], built in 1900 and tracing back to an original store in 1858, is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Nicollet County, Minnesota|National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nord">{{cite book|title=The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota|last=Nord|first=Mary Ann|publisher=[[Minnesota Historical Society]]|year=2003|isbn=0-87351-448-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/nationalregister0000nord}}</ref> ]] |
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| ⚫ | '''Norseland''' is an [[unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] in [[Lake Prairie Township, Nicollet County, Minnesota|Lake Prairie Township]], [[Nicollet County, Minnesota|Nicollet County]], [[Minnesota]], United States, near [[St. Peter, Minnesota|St. Peter]]. It is near the junction of State Highway 22 ([[Minnesota State Highway 22|MN 22]]) and Nicollet County Road 52. |
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==Notable person== |
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*[[Henry N. Benson]], Minnesota lawyer and politician, was born in Norseland.<ref>'Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society,' volume XIV, Minnesota Biographies 1655-1912, Warren Upham-editor, Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul: 1912, Biographical Sketch of Henry N. Benson, pg. 49</ref> |
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==References== |
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{{Nicollet County, Minnesota}} |
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Latest revision as of 15:44, 27 July 2023
Norseland | |
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 The Norseland General Store, built circa 1900 | |
  Norseland Location of the community of Norseland within Lake Prairie Township, Nicollet County  Norseland Norseland (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 44°24′46″N 94°07′00″W / 44.41278°N 94.11667°W | |
| Land | Vereinigte Staaten |
| State | Minnesota |
| County | Nicollet |
| Township | Lake Prairie Township |
| Elevation | 1,004 ft (306 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code | 56082 |
| Area code | 507 |
| GNIS feature ID | 654849[1] |
Norseland is an unincorporated community in Lake Prairie Township, Nicollet County, Minnesota, United States, near St. Peter. It is near the junction of State Highway 22 (MN 22) and Nicollet County Road 52.
Notable person
[edit]- Henry N. Benson, Minnesota lawyer and politician, was born in Norseland.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Norseland, Minnesota". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-448-3.
- ^ 'Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society,' volume XIV, Minnesota Biographies 1655-1912, Warren Upham-editor, Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul: 1912, Biographical Sketch of Henry N. Benson, pg. 49
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| Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |