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the History of WANAMINGO, Minnesota!
Wanamingo is situated some thirty-miles from the Goodhue County seat of Red Wing on the banks of the Mississippi River. Its topography is that part of SE Minnesota missed by the last ice age glaciers or “driftless area,” and approximately thirty-miles southeast of the terminal moraine of the last glacial period, estimated to have ended some twelve-thousand years ago. Its immediate vicinity is surrounded in all directions by productive farmland and to a lesser extent wooded areas. The North Fork of the Zumbro River flows west to east through the community, which had provided waterpower for a mill until the early 1900s. The farm fields and groves of timber of today once produced an ecosystem that provided habitat to bison, elk, deer, bear and prehistoric hunter/gatherer peoples, evidenced by their stone tools and projectile points found on nearby farm fields.
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