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 Lund Lutheran Church -- Gully MN - posted by Benchmark Blasterz

Since 1973, all incorporated towns were declared officially to be ‘cities’ by an act of the Minnesota Legislature. Ever wonder about those ‘little cities’? This series of 100 waymarks will take you to all corners of the great state of Minnesota to visit the 100 smallest of the incorporated cities in the state. All have a great story to tell.
This is the 30th of 100 of the cities described in the book LITTLE MINNESOTA. Gully is named for a ravine crossed by the railway adjoining the highest beach ridge of Glacial Lake Agassiz. The first homesteaders arrived around 1896, shortly after the Red Lake Reservation land opened for settlement. When the Soo Line Railroad arrived in 1909, the townsite was moved ¼ mile closer to the tracks. The city was incorporated in 1924 and is currently the home to 66 persons.
Over the years, the mainstay of Gully has been the Gully Co-op. Local farmers purchased the elevator in 1912 and established a strong Farmer’s Union. The co-op expanded to include a credit union, service station, general store, bulk oil plant, a lumber & machinery business and a trucking company. All of these businesses still exist in some form today. Being a very entrepreneurial citizenry, they created the Gully Mall in the school building when the school closed its doors in 1977.
This series of waymarks is tuned to getting people to visit these wonderful small communities before they disappear completely. To validate your ‘find’, please post a photo of you with your GPS at the coordinates and please relate a little tidbit about what you learned about the town and its people that is not in this narrative or the book. You can learn more about ‘LITTLE MINNESOTA’ by logging on to (visit link)

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