Sauk Rapids and Benton County

the long version

Sauk Rapids and Benton County tells the rich and interesting history of one of the oldest counties in the state of Minnesota. Featuring nearly 200 photographs, the book takes the reader on a historic tour of the past from the Indian settlements of the Ojibwe, to the Great Northern Railroad, to the Sauk Rapids cyclone of 1886, to the Benton County ancestors, and to their present-day descendants with their businesses, industries, and daily activities.