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Mankato Essential Info

Overview

Mankato is a city in Minnesota, USA.

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Basics

Best Time To Go

Mar-Oct

Current Time

Current Weather

55 °F

Cloudy

Fun Facts

  1. A popular story says that the city was intended to have been named Mahkato, but a typographical error by a clerk established the name as Mankato.
  2. On December 26, 1862, the US Army carried out the largest mass execution in U.S. history at Mankato following the Dakota War of 1862. T
  3. In Sinclair Lewis' 1920 novel Main Street, heroine Carol Milford is a former Mankato resident.
  4. In the Little House on the Prairie television series, Mankato is a trading town that the citizens of Walnut Grove visit. It does not appear in the Laura Ingalls Wilder books.
  5. Steve Zahn, actor and comedian, spent part of his childhood in Mankato and attended Kennedy Elementary School.

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