Augustana Academy was an educational institution in Canton, South Dakota

Canton, South Dakota

Canton is a city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, South Dakota, United States. The city was named by Norwegian settler and former legislator James M. Wahl...

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The Norwegian Augustana Synod

Norwegian Augustana Synod

Norwegian Augustana Synod was a Lutheran church body in the United States from 1870 to 1890. The group's original name was the Norwegian-Danish Augustana Synod in America. The name was shorted in 1878.-Background:...

 was established in 1870. In that year, the Synod began an academy called the Marshall Academy in Marshall, Wisconsin

Marshall, Dane County, Wisconsin

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. In 1881, the academy was moved to Beloit, Iowa

Beloit, Iowa

Beloit is an unincorporated community in Lyon County, Iowa, United States.-Geography:Beloit is located on the banks of the Big Sioux River in northwestern Iowa just across the river from Canton, South Dakota. U.S. Route 18 is just one mile to the north in Canton.-History:Originally served by the...

. In 1884 Augustana College

Augustana College (South Dakota)

Augustana College is a private, liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States. The campus makes the school the largest private university in South Dakota...

 moved from Beloit in Lyon County, Iowa

Lyon County, Iowa

-2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 11,581 in the county, with a population density of . There were 4,848 housing units, of which 4,442 were occupied.-2000 census:...

 to Canton, South Dakota

Canton, South Dakota

Canton is a city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, South Dakota, United States. The city was named by Norwegian settler and former legislator James M. Wahl...

. It included Augustana Academy for high school students.

In 1917 the Norwegian Synod, Hauge Synod

Hauge Synod

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 and the United Norwegian Lutheran Church in America merged to become the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America

Evangelical Lutheran Church (United States)

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. The new synod combined Augustana College with Lutheran Normal School in Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Sioux Falls is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Sioux Falls is the county seat of Minnehaha County, and also extends into Lincoln County to the south...

, some 25 miles away. The Normal School was from the Norwegian Synod. Augustana Academy, no longer a division of the college, remained in Canton. Augustana Academy closed in 1971. Since Augustana Academy closed, its records are held by Augustana College

Augustana College (South Dakota)

Augustana College is a private, liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States. The campus makes the school the largest private university in South Dakota...

 in Sioux Falls..

Notable alumni

• Ernest O. Lawrence, pioneer in nuclear medicine. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the first nuclear cyclotron. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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   and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory conducting unclassified scientific research. It is located on the grounds of the University of California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Hills above the central campus...
  
   are named in his honor.
• Ole Rølvaag, well known for his writings on the Norwegian American
  Norwegian American
  Norwegian Americans are Americans of Norwegian descent. Norwegian immigrants went to the United States primarily in the later half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century. There are more than 4.5 million Norwegian Americans according to the most recent U.S. census, and...
  
   immigrant experience on the Great Plain. Among other writings, he was author of Giants in the Earth.

Other sources

• Nelson, E. Clifford, and Fevold, Eugene L. The Lutheran Church among Norwegian-Americans: a history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1960)