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    Afton (/ˈæftən/ AF-tən) is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,886 at the 2010 United States Census. It lies on...
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    Trout Brook Afton Alps Ski Area Visitor Center St. Croix River A F T O N S T A T E P A R K    Afton State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, on the...
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  • Afton, Minnesota Afton, Nevada Afton, New Jersey Afton, New Mexico Afton (town), New York Afton (village), New York Afton, Ohio Afton, Oklahoma Afton...
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  • Washington County, south of Afton, Minnesota in the United States. There are nearly 300 acres (1.2 km2) skiable at Afton Alps. The ski hill has 350 feet...
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    Minnesota (/ˌmɪnəˈsoʊtə/ MIN-ə-SOH-tə) is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba...
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  • Washington County, Minnesota. The name was then changed to Bloom Township in honor of Peter Bloom, the township's first settler. Afton Township in Washington...
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    (16 km) long, the stream begins in Woodbury, Minnesota, and flows into the St. Croix River at Afton, Minnesota. Valley Creek is notable as the location of...
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  • Gordon, John Steele (1998). MacMillan: the American grain family. Afton, Minnesota: Afton Historical Society Press. p. 336. ISBN 1890434043. OCLC 38239367...
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    Cushing Hotel (category 1867 establishments in Minnesota)
    The Cushing Hotel is a historic hotel in Afton, Minnesota, United States, established in 1867 to cater to railroad workers, lumbermen, and travelers. The...
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    Wisconsin) William O'Brien State Park (Minnesota) Afton State Park (Minnesota) St. Croix Boom Site (Minnesota) Dunn, James Taylor. The St. Croix: Midwest...
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    logging and lumber economy. The area's first settlers arrived at the future Afton in 1837. In 1838 settlers started Dacotah, at the north edge of present...
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    Guthrie Theater (category 1963 establishments in Minnesota)
    N. Wright (1999). Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design. Afton, Minnesota: Afton Historical Society Press. ISBN 1-890434-14-0. Kamin, Blair (March...
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    Minnesota Book Award winner". www.tcdailyplanet.net/. Retrieved August 19, 2022. "Afton--Washington County Historical Society". www.wchsmn.org/afton/...
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    Swedes who became part of a growing community near his family farm in Afton, Minnesota where he was buried in 1859. In June 1948, Prince Bertil of Sweden...
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  • Minnesota is home to many ski resorts. Afton Alps - Afton Andes Tower Hills - Kensington Buck Hill - Burnsville Buena Vista - Bemidji Coffee Mill Ski...
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    Afton is a town in Chenango County, New York, United States. The population was 2,769 at the 2020 census. Afton is situated in the southeast corner of...
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    respectively, Oakdale, Landfall, Lake Elmo, Cottage Grove, Maplewood, Newport and Afton. Woodbury is composed of upland between the valleys of the Mississippi River...
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    Street South in Afton and then turned north on the St. Croix Trail; present day Highway 95 now continues north along Manning Avenue (the Afton / Woodbury border)...
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    Minnesota is a state situated in the Midwestern United States. According to the 2020 United States census, Minnesota is the 22nd most populous state with...
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    Centennial Story. Afton Historical Society Press. pp. 52–53. ISBN 1-890434-67-1. Gardner, Denis (2017). Our Minnesota State Capitol. Minnesota Historical Society...
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    Margaret Bonga Fahlstrom (category Ojibwe in Minnesota)
    marriage, the Fahlstroms had nine children. They eventually settled in Afton, Minnesota, where Margaret is buried next to her husband. According to census...
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    Joseph Haskell was Minnesota's first white farmer, harvesting the first crops in the state in 1840 on what is now part of Afton Township on Trading Post...
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    Ruth Tanbara (category University of Minnesota alumni)
    Portland, Oregon – January 4, 2008, in Afton, Minnesota) was a Japanese American community leader in Saint Paul, Minnesota. From Oregon, she was the first Japanese...
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  • within Denmark Township. Denmark Township was organized in 1858. Afton Alps Ski Area and Afton State Park are located within the township. According to the...
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    Newington Gilbert House (category 1864 establishments in Minnesota)
    The Newington Gilbert House is a historic house in Afton, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1864 in what was then the separate community of Valley...
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    investigation of the collapse; it was removed to a storage facility in Afton, Minnesota, in fall 2010. Federal officials planned to bring some of the bridge...
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  • Marys Point, Minnesota – $36,905 Afton, Minnesota – $36,338 Plymouth, Minnesota – $36,309 Chanhassen, Minnesota – $36,008 Northrop, Minnesota – $35,785 Independence...
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  • House, NRHP-listed Erastus Bolles House, Afton, Minnesota, listed on the NRHP in Washington County, Minnesota Charles Bolles House, Belle Fourche, South...
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    Erastus Bolles House (category 1856 establishments in Minnesota Territory)
    The Erastus Bolles House is a historic house in Afton, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1856 in what was then the separate community of Valley...
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  • separate campus in Afton, Minnesota, and named Luther Seminary. In 1892, it moved again to the Phalen Park area of Saint Paul, Minnesota, and became part...
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