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    Walnut Grove is a city in Redwood County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 871 at the 2010 census. Another name formerly associated with the...
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  • Walnut Grove may refer to: Walnut Grove, Langley, British Columbia Walnut Grove, Alabama Walnut Grove, Arizona Walnut Grove, Arkansas (disambiguation)...
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  • near Pepin for the second time, and settled just outside Walnut Grove, Minnesota. Walnut Grove may be the most recognized name of all the towns Wilder...
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  • Little House on the Prairie (TV series) (category Television shows set in Minnesota)
    about the Ingalls family, who live on a farm on Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s–90s. Charles, Caroline, Laura, Mary, and Carrie Ingalls...
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    Caroline Ingalls (category People from Redwood County, Minnesota)
    Ingalls was born on November 1, 1875, in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, and died August 27, 1876, in South Troy, Minnesota, of indeterminate causes. In her autobiography...
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    which was published in 1935; On the Banks of Plum Creek about Walnut Grove, Minnesota (published 1937); then four books about De Smet, South Dakota:...
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  • (1836–1908) Owens did, as Ingalls describes, run the local mercantile in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. Later in her life, around 1883, the Owens family moved to California;...
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    around 1874, the Ingalls family moves from Kansas to an area near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, settling in a dugout on the banks of Plum Creek. They moved there...
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    Robert Alden (category People from Walnut Grove, Minnesota)
    Waseca, Minnesota in 1868, the first organized church in that town. Alden was later the minister at the Congregational Church in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, which...
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    Plum Creek is a 35.4-mile-long (57.0 km) stream near the city of Walnut Grove, Minnesota. It passes to the northwest of the town, flowing northeasterly...
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  • an American Western drama about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota from the 1870s to the 1890s. The show is a full-colour version...
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  • Kansas to an area near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, and settle in a dugout "on the banks of Plum Creek (Redwood County, Minnesota)". Pa trades his horses...
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    Sleepy Eye, which was portrayed as the nearest larger town to Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where the Ingallses resided. It was also the (fictional) home...
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  • On the Banks of Plum Creek (category Novels set in Minnesota)
    her childhood when the Ingalls family lived at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, during the 1870s. The original dust jacket proclaimed, "The true...
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    living below the poverty line. Walnut Grove, Minnesota and Westbrook are sister cities because Westbrook-Walnut Grove (WWG) Public Schools is distributed...
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    Almanzo Wilder (category People from Spring Valley, Minnesota)
    was formally organized. They moved to the Dakota Territory from Walnut Grove, Minnesota, when Charles Ingalls took a temporary job with the railroad. Wilder...
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  • Little House on the Prairie (novel) (category Novels set in Minnesota)
    where they lived the next four years. In 1874 they started for Walnut Grove, Minnesota, stopping for a while in Lake City. Although Wilder states that...
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    Leo K. Thorsness (category People from Walnut Grove, Minnesota)
    Washington State Senate. Thorsness was born February 14, 1932, in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where his family had a farm. There, he earned the Eagle Scout...
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  • Lester Mondale (category People from Walnut Grove, Minnesota)
    American Unitarian minister and Humanist. Mondale was born in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, the son of Methodist minister and World War I hero Theodore Sigvaard...
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    (November 1, 1875 in Walnut Grove, Minnesota – August 27, 1876 in South Troy), died at the age of 10 months. "South Troy, Minnesota". Geographic Names Information...
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  • (he was fired after wrecking the ship) and as a schoolteacher in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. He visited a brothel, and wrote extensively about his experience...
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  • fictional friend The Kennedy Family were the Ingalls's neighbors in Walnut Grove, Minnesota and their children went to school with Mary and Laura Nellie Oleson...
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    Carl G. O. Hansen (category People from Walnut Grove, Minnesota)
    siblings in 1881. His mother, widowed since 1872, took the family to Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where her parents and siblings had previously settled. In 1882...
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  • Westbrook-Walnut Grove Public School district was formed in the early 1990s when the Westbrook Wildcats and the Walnut Grove Loggers merged to become one...
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  • Larry Korver (category High school football coaches in Minnesota)
    played football at both schools. Korver coached at Walnut Grove High School in Walnut Grove, Minnesota and Maurice-Orange City High School in his hometown...
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  • Kansas to an area near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, and settle in a dugout "on the banks of Plum Creek (Redwood County, Minnesota)". Jack, the family bulldog...
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  • Leo K. Thorsness, a retired United States Air Force Colonel from Walnut Grove, Minnesota, and veteran of the Vietnam War, published the memoir Surviving...
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  • Wayne Haensel (category People from Walnut Grove, Minnesota)
    Wayne Haensel Biographical details Born (1936-05-21)May 21, 1936 Walnut Grove, Minnesota, U.S. Died November 12, 2012(2012-11-12) (aged 76) Brookings, South...
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  • Heron Lake, Minnesota – $15,657 Roosevelt, Minnesota – $15,656 Flensburg, Minnesota – $15,652 Walnut Grove, Minnesota – $15,637 Hokah, Minnesota – $15,630...
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  • Norman R. DeBlieck (category People from Lyon County, Minnesota)
    DeBlieck was born on a farm near Walnut Grove, Minnesota. He went to school in Lyon County, Minnesota and served in the Minnesota National Guard from 1950 to...
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