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National Bank Notes > Minnesota

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Wadena, First NB, 4821
Fr. 513 $50 1882BB
Grade: CU    

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WADENA is a city in Otter Tail and Wadena counties and is the county seat of Wadena County. It was first settled in the fall of 1871, incorporated February 14, 1881, and separated from the township on March 11, 1921. The post office was established in 1873; it had a station serving the Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railroad. The town took its name from the Wadena trading post of the old trail from Crow Wing to Otter Tail City and Pembina, situated on the west bluff of the Crow Wing River at its crossing in the present township of Thomastown. Wadena, an archaic Ojibwe word meaning "a little round hill," probably refers to the rounded outlines of the Crow Wing bluffs along the river.

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