Kandota

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Kandota MN 56378
United States
45° 45' 24.3612" N, 95° 0' 0.8928" W
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Kandota is in Todd County KANDOTA Township, organized in April 1870, took the name of a proposed townsite platted here in 1856, on the shore of Fairy Lake, by Edwin Whitefield, an artist from Massachusetts. This name, derived by him from the Dakota language, is said to mean "Here we rest." The townsite, the first platted in the county, was incorporated as a village on February 27, 1878, and had a station of the Great Northern Railway but did not develop as planned. From: Upham, Warren. Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, First edition 1920. Third Edition 2001. Print.