Hereford Cemetery

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HEREFORD, a village in section 6, Elbow Lake Township, and section 1, North Ottawa, was platted in September 1887. The history of the county notes the origin of this name as follows: "In 1886, when the railroad was about to establish a station at this point, it was the intention to call the place Culbertson, in honor of the man who owned a tract of land there, but the modest man said that if they wished to compliment him in any way to call the place 'Hereford, after his beautiful herd of white-faced cattle kept on his farm, Hereford Park,' near Newman, Illinois. Accordingly the place was so christened." The breed of cattle came from a county so named in western England. The village had a post office, 1888-1923, formerly at Ireland, and a station of the Great Northern Railway. The Hereford Cemetery is the only reminder of Hereford, Minnesota.