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This Day in Minnesota History

January 16, 1874

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ISBN: 0873514165
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Willmar Village is incorporated. Platted (surveyed and mapped) in 1869, the township was named for Leon Willmar, a Belgian agent for European investors in the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company. Willmar would become a city in 1901.

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First published: July 1, 2015
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