The Mennonites of Mountain Lake, Minnesota

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With the railroad expanding westward, Minnesota needed farmers and laborers to work in the new settlements along the railroad line. Minnesota State Board of Immigration member William Seeger advocated for a group of Russian Mennonites to come and live in the new settlement of Mountain Lake.Image: Evangelical Mennonite Church, half-mile north of Mountain Lake, Minnesota, 1959. [credit: MN Historical Society]

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