Fernando, Minnesota

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Fernando was a community in sections 28 and 29 of Round Grove Township in McLeod County, Minnesota, United States.

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 in the town of Stewart.^[1]

Notes

↑ Upham, Warren (2001). Minnesota Place Names, A Geographical Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society. pp. pp. 359. ISBN 0-87351-396-7.

v t e Municipalities and communities of McLeod County, Minnesota, United States

County seat: Glencoe

Cities	Biscay Brownton Glencoe Hutchinson Lester Prairie Plato Silver Lake Stewart Winsted

Townships	Acoma Bergen Collins Glencoe Hale Hassan Valley Helen Hutchinson Lynn Penn Rich Valley Round Grove Sumter Winsted

Ghost towns	Fernando Heatwole

Coordinates: 44°39′06″N 94°27′28″W / 44.65167°N 94.45778°W / 44.65167; -94.45778

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