Lorne, Minnesota

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Lorne, Minnesota
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Lorne, Minnesota
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Lorne, Minnesota
Coordinates: 44°44′46″N95°34′28″W / 44.74611°N 95.57444°W / 44.74611; -95.57444 Coordinates: 44°44′46″N95°34′28″W / 44.74611°N 95.57444°W / 44.74611; -95.57444
Country United States
State Minnesota
County Yellow Medicine
Elevation 1,050 ft (320 m)
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
Area code(s) 320
GNIS feature ID 654805 [1]

Lorne is an unincorporated community in Minnesota Falls Township, Yellow Medicine County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. [1]

Minnesota Falls Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota Township in Minnesota, United States

Minnesota Falls Township is a township in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 361 at the 2000 census.

Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota County in the United States

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U.S. state constituent political entity of the United States

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are currently 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory and shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Due to this shared sovereignty, Americans are citizens both of the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons restricted by certain types of court orders. Four states use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names.

History

Lorne was laid out in 1898, and named for Marquess of Lorne, a Governor General of Canada (1878–1883). [2] A post office was established at Lorne in 1905, and remained in operation until 1935. [3]

John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll British nobleman and 4th Governor General of Canada

John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll,, usually better known by the courtesy title Marquess (Marquis) of Lorne, by which he was known between 1847 and 1900, was a British nobleman and was the fourth Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883. He is now remembered primarily for the place names bestowed on Canadian geography in honour of his wife and for his metrical paraphrase of Psalm 121, "Unto the hills around do I lift up".

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References

  1. 1 2 "Lorne". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  2. ↑ Upham, Warren (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 595.
  3. ↑ "Yellow Medicine County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 16 August 2015.


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