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Otter Tail City

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Otter Tail City was an important post on the fur trade route from St. Paul and Crow Wing to the Red River Valley in the 1850s. It was once the county seat and had the U.S. Land Office for the district. When the county seat was established at Fergus Falls in 1872, the city was abandoned.
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Ottertail, Minnesota · United States
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