Its county seat is Fergus Falls.

The pine and hardwood forests, transportation system, and markets were instrumental in the development of Fergus Falls into a lumber center.

The people of Fergus Falls organized a new county named Holcomb.

In 1872, a legislative act abolished Holcomb County, added additional townships to the west, and established Fergus Falls as the county seat of Otter Tail County.

The Detroit Lakes campus of the Minnesota State Community and Technical College system is one of four campus locations ( others are in Moorhead, Fergus Falls, and Wadena ).

Children from the area attend schools in Fergus Falls, Ashby, or Underwood.

Fergus Falls is a city in and the county seat of Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States.

Fergus Falls Town Hall, modeled after Philadelphia's Independence Hall ( United States ) | Independence HallFergus Falls features many different parks ( tallgrass prairie and eastern woodlands ), stores, and other tourist attractions.

Founded in 1914, the Victor Lundeen Company is still an important business in Fergus Falls today.

The arts in Fergus Falls are booming with a wonderful community theater program situated in the downtown area.

Cloud and found Whitford's lapsed claim, purchased the land, and built what is now the Central Dam in downtown Fergus Falls around 1871.

Two major tornadoes hit Fergus Falls during the early 20th century, the second, the 1919 Fergus Falls tornado, being the greater.

The importance of the Civil War experience to these early settlers is highlighted by the naming of the streets of Fergus Falls: The intersecting principal thoroughfares are Lincoln Avenue and Union Avenue.

The Lutheran Brethren ( Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America ) established an academy in Fergus Falls, which today operates a private high school, theological seminary and mission society, with an office in Fergus Falls.

After the Interstate Defense Highway System built Interstate 94 along the western edge of Fergus Falls in the late 1950s, population mobility increased dramatically, and high school graduates increasingly left the town to attend colleges in Morris, Fargo-Moorhead, or the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

Interstate 94 / U. S. Route 59 and Minnesota State Highway 210 ( co-signed ); and County Highways 1, 82 and 88 are the main routes in Fergus Falls.

Fergus Falls is home to Lake Region Healthcare which is the largest employer of Ottertail County, employing over 850 people.

** Fergus Falls Daily Journal

* Fergus Falls Convention and Visitors Bureau

* Information about St Fergus

In 1848, Douglass was the only African American to attend the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention.

* 1848 – Women's rights: a two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York.

Lucy attended the Rochester women ’ s rights convention held in August 1848, two weeks after the historic Seneca Falls Convention, and signed the Rochester convention ’ s Declaration of Sentiments.

* The Seneca Falls Convention, often called the birthplace of the American women's rights movement

The convention was held in: Seneca Falls, New York, now known as the Seneca Falls Convention.

While scattered movements and organizations dedicated to women's rights existed previously, the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York is traditionally held as the start of the American women's rights movement.

* July 19 – Women's rights – Seneca Falls Convention: The 2-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York and the " Bloomers " are introduced at the feminist convention.

* Seneca Falls Convention ( first convention for women's rights ) in Seneca Falls, New York ; 1848

Consciously modeled after the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments became the founding document of the American women's movement, and it was adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention, July 19 and 20, 1848

* Seneca Falls Convention

The Seneca Niagara Casino occupies the former Niagara Falls Convention Center.

* 1973 – Niagara Falls Convention Center ( now Seneca Niagara Casino ), Niagara Falls, New York

The Seneca Falls Convention was an early and influential women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, July 19 – 20, 1848.

Stanton's authoring of the History of Woman Suffrage helped to establish the Seneca Falls Convention as the moment when the push for women's suffrage first gained national prominence.

Some of the ministers heading congregations in the area attended the Seneca Falls Convention, but none spoke out during the sessions, not even when comments from the floor were invited.

In the volume, Stanton did not mention the Liberty Party's plank on woman suffrage pre-dating the Seneca Falls Convention by a month, and she did not describe the Worcester National Women's Rights Convention, organized by Stone and Davis in 1850, as the beginning of the women's rights movement.

* Osborn, Elizabeth R. The Seneca Falls Convention: Teaching about the Rights of Women and the Heritage of the Declaration of Independence.

Visitors also engage in nearby skiing ( both alpine and cross-country ), biking or hiking to the waterfalls, streams and lakes in the area, including nearby Falls of the McCloud River, Burney Falls, Mossbrae Falls, Lake Siskiyou, Castle Lake and Shasta Lake, or visiting the ruins of one of the great nightclubs or speakeasies from the heyday of the Roaring Twenties.

Visitors also engage in nearby skiing ( both alpine and cross-country ), or bike or hike to the waterfalls, streams and lakes in the area, including nearby Mossbrae Falls, Lake Siskiyou, Castle Lake and Shasta Lake.

Visitors also engage in nearby skiing ( both alpine and cross-country ) and biking, or hike to the waterfalls, streams and lakes in the area, including nearby Mossbrae Falls, Lake Siskiyou, Castle Lake and Shasta Lake.

Visitors to the town can visit the nearby World Heritage Site of New Lanark, close to the Falls of Clyde, the Corehouse estate and the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Corehouse Nature Reserve.

Visitors explore " Devil's Bathtub " at Falls Creek The range is approximately east-to-west and 10 – 15 miles north-to-south.

This film is shown every day at the North Visitors Center on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Visitors Center at the Washington D. C. Temple, the Visitors Center at the Mesa Arizona Temple, and the Visitors Center at the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple.

Visitors can park at Bont Newydd, from where the Falls are accessible on foot on a clearly marked trackway.

Visitors can view Lower Falls year-round.

* Little Falls Convention and Visitors Bureau

Visitors explore " Devil's Bathtub " at Falls Creek Falls Creek was established in the summer of 1917, when J.

* Sacred Falls State Park on the Hawaii for Visitors website