Fernando was a community in sections 28 and 29 of Round Grove Township

Round Grove Township, Minnesota

Round Grove Township is a township in McLeod County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 276 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 36.2 square miles , of which, 35.7 square miles of it is land and...

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McLeod County, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 34,898 people, 13,449 households, and 9,427 families residing in the county. The population density was 71 people per square mile . There were 14,087 housing units at an average density of 29 per square mile...

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

, United States

United States

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History

The town of Fernando had a post office from 1899 until 1903. Unusually, Fernando's post office was located in the creamery, with the buttermaker, Ferdinand W. Fenske, acting as postmaster. The town also had a church and was a few miles south of a station of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad

The Milwaukee Road, officially the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad , was a Class I railroad that operated in the Midwest and Northwest of the United States from 1847 until its merger into the Soo Line Railroad on January 1, 1986. The company went through several official names...

 in the town of Stewart

Stewart, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 564 people, 241 households, and 146 families residing in the city. The population density was 697.3 people per square mile . There were 254 housing units at an average density of 314.0 per square mile . The racial makeup of the city was 98.58% White, 0.18%...

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