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Brown County, Minnesota

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40historic places

—earliest paper

1855formed

25,912pop. 2020

30cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 40 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near New Ulm, Sleepy Eye, Hanska.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

36 of 40 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

40 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bendixon-Schmid House	Springfield	Building	1979
Berg's, C., Hotel	Sleepy Eye	Building	2012
Bjorneberg Garage	Hanska	Building	1979
Boesch, Hummel, and Maltzahn Block	New Ulm	Building	1979
Chicago and North Western Depot	Sleepy Eye	Building	1992
Chicago and North Western Railroad Depot	New Ulm	Building	1979
District No. 50 School	Milford Township	Building	2017
Fesenmaier, Bernard, House	New Ulm	Building	1979
Flandrau State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources	New Ulm	District	1989
Gag, Wanda, Childhood Home	New Ulm	Building	1979
Grand Hotel	New Ulm	Building	1990
Hermann Monument	New Ulm	Structure	1973
Kiesling, Frederick W., House	New Ulm	Building	1972
Kreitinger Garage	Springfield	Building	1979
Lampert Lumber Company Line Yard	New Ulm	Building	1979
Liberal Union Hall	Hanska	Building	1979
Lind, Gov. John, House	New Ulm	Building	1974
Melges Bakery	New Ulm	Building	1974
New Ulm Armory	New Ulm	Building	1979
New Ulm Commercial Historic District (Additional Documentation)	New Ulm	District	2005
New Ulm Commercial Historic District (Boundary Decrease)	New Ulm	District	2026
New Ulm High School	New Ulm	Building	2015
New Ulm Oil Company Service Station	New Ulm	Building	1979
New Ulm Post Office	New Ulm	Building	1970
Nora Free Christian Church	Hanska	Building	1988
Ochs, Adolph C., House	Springfield	Building	1979
Old Main, Dr. Martin Luther College	New Ulm	Building	1979
Schell, August, Brewing Company	New Ulm	District	1974
Schell, Otto, House	New Ulm	Building	1979
Shady Lane Stock Farm	Springfield	Building	1979
Sleepy Eye Milling Company	Sleepy Eye	District	1991
Smith, W. W., House	Sleepy Eye	Building	1979
South Broadway Historic District	New Ulm	District	1979
South German Street Historic District	New Ulm	District	1979
St. Michael's School and Convent	New Ulm	Building	1979
Synsteby Site	Hanska	Site	1975
Thormodson Barn	Hanska	Building	1979
Turner Hall	New Ulm	Building	1979
Way of the Cross, The	New Ulm	Site	2020
Winona and St. Peter Freight Depot	Sleepy Eye	Building	1979

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Brown was formed in 1855 (1855-02-20) from Blue Earth.

BROWN created from BLUE EARTH.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Brown County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,339	12,018	19,787	22,421	25,544	25,895	27,676	28,645	26,911	25,912

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

30 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 30 of 30 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Christ Lutheran Cemetery	44.13666	-95.02971
Cottonwood Cemetery	44.2394	-94.43718
Current Cemetery	44.36412	-94.6347
Eden Cemetery	44.41912	-94.7847
Faith Cemetery	44.12967	-94.89887
Golden Gate Cemetery	44.38356	-94.7247
Home Cemetery	44.30505	-94.71161
Immanuel Cemetery	44.42579	-94.80442
Lake Hanska Cemetery	44.13162	-94.51357
Linden Cemetery	44.12333	-94.42694
Mielke Cemetery	44.26773	-94.81303
Moravian Cemetery	44.17467	-94.96026
Mount Hope Cemetery	44.47273	-94.83748
Mount Pisgah Cemetery	44.14301	-94.48218
New Ulm Catholic Cemetery	44.33039	-94.48714
New Ulm City Cemetery	44.33296	-94.48598
North Star Cemetery	44.26328	-95.04721
Prairieville Cemetery	44.36856	-94.79192
Rice Lake Cemetery	44.17801	-94.39385
Saint Johns Cemetery	44.2144	-94.43302
Saint Josephs Cemetery	44.26912	-94.45274
Saint Mary's Cemetery	44.30579	-94.71971
Saint Paul Cemetery	44.25384	-94.96137
Saint Paul's Lutheran Cemetery	44.33265	-94.48923
Saint Rachael Cemetery	44.25273	-94.9772
Saint Raphael Cemetery	44.25273	-94.97804
Salem Cemetery	44.1086	-94.81916
Springfield Cemetery	44.23078	-94.95776
Zion Cemetery	44.14912	-94.50552
Zion Cemetery	44.41273	-94.84693

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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