Fernando, Minnesota

Fernando was a community in sections 28 and 29 of Round Grove Township in McLeod County, Minnesota, United States.

History

The town of Fernando had a post office from 1899 until 1903. Unusually, Fernando's post office was located in the creamery, with the buttermaker, Ferdinand W. Fenske, acting as postmaster. The town also had a church and was a few miles south of a station of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in the town of Stewart. ^[1]

Notes

1. ^ Upham, Warren (2001). Minnesota Place Names, A Geographical Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society. pp. pp. 359. ISBN 0-87351-396-7. 

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Coordinates: 44°39′06″N 94°27′28″W / 44.65167°N 94.45778°W / 44.65167; -94.45778