Heron Lake is a strongly Catholic community as the next photos depict.
A very beautiful and unique cemetery.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church and Cemetery, Heron Lake MN
Stop at Buckshot’s
Buckshot’s Bar and Grill located in Butterfield, MN
Lu Lu’s Bar, Plato MN
Main Street, Plato in McCleod County Minnesota
Locally owned by Lu Lu and Jerry was what I was able to find online. I first photographed this in 2012, then again in 2014 and now in 2022. I am not sure when it closed. Sorry I missed it. From what I read they had burgers and pizza.
Dunnell Minnesota
Dunnell is a city in Martin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 167 at the 2010 census.
A post office called Dunnell has been in operation since 1873. The city was named for Mark H. Dunnell, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota.
Barns and ACO Silo, Ocheyedan, IA
Beautiful barns and ACO silo near Ocheyedan, IA
Carver County Fall 2019
We’re starting to get some fall color here in Carver County. Due to the wet spring there are still a lot of soybeans that are a ways out and there is corn that looks much further along. Lots of variation this year in different parts of the state and from field to field.
Heron Lake MN
A small town in Jackson County
Heron Lake is a city in Jackson County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 698 at the 2010 census. Heron Lake was named in 1870 after a local lake where great blue herons were seen.
Darfur School in Darfur, MN
Darfur was platted in April 1899 by the Chicago and North Western Railway; its incorporation as a village was completed on December 31, 1903 and it became a city on January 1, 1974 when Minnesota abolished villages.
Delft MN Farmers Elevator
The entry in Wikipedia talks of the elevator burning. That was the first elevator. This second elevator in the photos burned in the mid 1970’s. It was due to be rebuilt, but funding problems arose.
The village of Delft was established as a railroad station in 1892. Ten years later, on June 18, 1902, the village was officially platted by the Inter-State Land Company.[2][4] The community was named after the city of Delft, in the Netherlands, previous to which it was called Wilhelmine.[4][5]
Delft was a station on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad, which ran through the southwestern part of the township, en route from Jeffers to Bingham Lake. Shortly after the original elevator was built, the village had its first fire which burned the Farmers Elevator Company, its coal sheds, and the railroad company’s stockyards – all of which were rebuilt immediately after. At one time, there was also a general store, hardware store, a general farm implement sales business,[2] as well as a creamery.[6]
Established in a predominantly Mennonite area, by the 1950s approximately 400 members of Mennonite Brethren and General Conference Mennonite churches resided within a 5-mile radius of the little community’s two Mennonite churches. The Carson Mennonite Brethren Church, founded in 1875 and closed in 2005, and the now independent (as of ca. 2002) Immanuel Mennonite Church, originally established in 1940.[7][8]
A post office began operation in Delft in 1903. It was closed in 1993.[9]
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delft,_Minnesota
Fall Color Cottonwood County
The spring planting was held up this year due to excessive rain. The beans should be a little further along that this, but the brown drying soybeans would not have been as colorful.
Abandoned Farm
Dundee MN
Dundee is a city in Nobles County, Minnesota, United States The population was 68 at the 2010 census. Dundee was established in 1879 when the St. Paul and Sioux City Railway Company built a branch line, then known as the Heron Lake & Black Hills Railroad.
The first station out of Heron Lake was proposed in the extreme northeastern corner of Nobles County, and was originally named Warren, in honor of Joseph Warren who fell at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
The town was surveyed and platted in July 1879, and construction of a depot began on August 13. Mr. G. Foils moved to town and assumed duties of stationmaster on September 1. He was also named postmaster when a post office was established on November 1, 1879. It was at this time that the name was changed to Dundee, after the city of Dundee, Scotland. The reason for the name change is lost to history, although it is known that stationmaster/postmaster G. Foils (whose first name is also lost to history) made the change.
Fleeting Farms 