Sleepy Eye, Minnesota
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Sleepy Eye is a small city in rural Brown County, Minnesota, United States. The city is named after a famed local Dakota chief from the 1800s. The population was 3,452 at the 2020 census.
1899 Q. Berg Hotel (NRHP), 2012
1901 W. W. Smith House (NRHP), 2010.
1901–20 Sleepy Eye Milling Company (NRHP), 2011.
1902 Chicago and North Western Depot (NRHP), 2010.
Walnut Grove, Minnesota
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Walnut Grove is a city in Redwood County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 751 at the 2020 census. Another name formerly associated with the area is Walnut Station.
Sleepy Eye, Minnesota
…television series Little House on the Prairie, Charles Ingalls sometimes made deliveries to Sleepy Eye, which was portrayed as the nearest larger town to Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where the Ingallses resided. It was also the (fictional) home of the blind school that Mary Ingalls and her TV-husband, Adam Kendall, ran later in the…
U.S. Post Office, First State Bank Building, and water tower in Walnut Grove
Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Walnut Grove