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Clarks Grove is a small city in sections 34 and 35 of Bath Township, Freeborn County, Minnesota. The population was 706 at the 2010 census.
Clarks Grove was founded in 1890, and incorporated as a village in 1920. It had a station of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway (Sometimes listed as James). The post office was established in 1857.
It was named after a grove of trees a mile east of town owned by settler J. Mead Clark,Clark. Clarks Grove is known for having the first cooperative creamery in the state.
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Clarks Grove was founded in 1890, and incorporated as a village in 1920. It had a station of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway (Sometimes listed as James). The post office was established in 1857.
It was named after a grove of trees a mile east of town owned by settler J. Mead Clark,Clark. Clarks Grove is known for having the first cooperative creamery in the state.
mnplaces.mnhs.org/upham/city.cfm?PlaceNameID=557&BookCo...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarks_Grove,_MN
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Coordinates: 43°45'43"N 93°19'38"W
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