Detroit Lakes, Minnesota "Detroit Lakes"
Detroit Lakes, Minnesota Downtown Detroit Lakes along Washington Avenue Downtown Detroit Lakes along Washington Avenue Official seal of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota Location of Detroit Lakeswithin Becker Countyin the state of Minnesota Location of Detroit Lakes Detroit Lakes is a town/city in the State of Minnesota and the governmental center of county of Becker County.
Detroit Lakes is positioned 45 miles east of the Fargo Moorhead ND-MN statistical urbane area.
The nearest primary urbane region with a populace over 300,000 is Minneapolis Saint Paul, which is approximately 205 miles southeast of Detroit Lakes.
Detroit Lakes is a county-wide summer and winter recreation destination, attracting large numbers of tourists and cyclic inhabitants each year.
The town/city of Detroit Lakes was established by Colonel George Johnston in 1871.
In 1877, an election finally decided that Detroit Lakes, then known as Detroit, was to turn into the county seat.
The close-by cities of Frazee, Lake Park, and Audubon were also in the running for the county seat.
By 1884, Detroit Lakes had many businesses, including the Hotel Minnesota, the Lakes Hotel, a bank, a newspaper, and an opera home.
The first county courthouse was assembled in Detroit Lakes that year also.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 15.20 square miles (39.37 km2), of which, 10.22 square miles (26.47 km2) is territory and 4.98 square miles (12.90 km2) is water. Climate data for Detroit Lakes, Minnesota Detroit Lakes is the governmental center of county of Becker County, with the county courthouse and law enforcement center being positioned there.
District command posts for the Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Minnesota State Highway Patrol are also positioned in the city.
Detroit Lakes is positioned in Minnesota's 7th congressional district, represented by Collin Peterson (DFL), the former chairman of the House Agriculture Committee who resides in Detroit Lakes.
The town/city is in Minnesota Senate District 4 after 2012 redistricting, represented by Kent Eken (DFL), and Minnesota House District 4 - B, represented by Paul Marquart (DFL).
The Detroit Lakes ground of the Minnesota State Community and Technical College fitness is one of four ground locations (others are in Moorhead, Fergus Falls, and Wadena).
The Detroit Lakes campus, positioned on Minnesota Highway 34, enrolls approximately 650 students in 25 different degree programs.
Detroit Lakes Middle School (5 8) (Only from Roosevelt) Detroit Lakes High School (9 12) Lakes Area Learning Center Alternative High School (ALC) (9 12) Built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the Detroit Lakes Public Library is a branch of the Lake Agassiz Regional Library Network (LARL).
Historic Detroit Lakes Amtrak Depot in winter Numerous works of architecture and engineering in Detroit Lakes have been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library of the Prairie School architectural style, by architects Claude and Starck and momentous of the reconstructionfrom 1900 to 1924, was added to the Register in 1976.
Sargent House on Lake Avenue, presently a privately owned domestic dwelling of the Queen Anne architectural style and momentous of the periods 1875 1899 and 1900 1924, was added to the Register in 1988.
Lake Shore Drive, momentous of the reconstruction - 1925 1949, were added to the National Register in 1989.
Detroit Lakes is home to approximately 15 chain and autonomous hotels.
With two industrialized parks in the city's outskirts, it is also home to many manufacturing and industrialized businesses, including Ramsey Flooring, Snappy, BTD Manufacturing, Friesens, Inc.,Laker Locker, Swheat Scoop Cat Litter, Hartman Hide and Fur, and Land O' Lakes Feed. In and around Detroit Lakes are a several lakes used for fishing, boating, wake sports, sailing, jet-skiing, swimming, and contaminating scuba diving.
Most prominent and heavily used is Detroit Lake, which features the mile-long town/city beach.
In and around Detroit Lakes are 14 golf courses.
The Shrine Circus performs in Detroit Lakes each year at the Kent Freeman Arena.
In the winter off-season, the region remains a prominent recreation destination for ice fishing, snowmobiling, cross nation skiing and downhill skiing and snowboarding at the newly renovated Detroit Mountain Recreation Area.
The Historic Holmes Theatre, a physical and organizational branch of the Detroit Lakes Community and Cultural Center complex, is a recently renovated Art Deco theatre that hosts year-round music, drama and dance performances.
With seating for nearly 1,000, the theatre features a wide range of experienced nationwide and global touring shows (including Arlo Guthrie, the Chinese Golden Acrobats, the New York Theatre Ballet, and the Guthrie Theater), small-town performing groups (Playhouse 412, Fargo/Moorhead Jazz Arts Group, Wadena Madhatters) and affairs (wedding receptions, company meetings, and Detroit Lakes' Annual Festival of the Birds). The music festival is held annually at the Soo Pass Ranch on Highway 59 south of Detroit Lakes.
A recently assembled Community & Cultural Center serves Detroit Lakes, incorporating a new public center with the completely renovated brick building that once was the Holmes School.
The old 1931 school building homes the renovated 837-seat Historic Holmes Theatre featuring orchestra and balcony level seating, conference rooms, and the Lakes Area Learning Center and Alternative High School.
There are a several Christian churches in and around the town/city of Detroit Lakes.
In addition to Holy Rosary Church (a large Roman Catholic church), the town/city contains one of each of the following denominational churches: Episcopal Church, United Methodist, Assemblies of God, United Church of Christ, Mennonite, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Community Alliance Church Christian & Missionary Alliance, e - Xperience Church, Vineyard Church.
At present, no theological denominations outside of Christianity have places of worship in Detroit Lakes.
Detroit Lakes stations: TV3: Lakes Area Television (News/Local Programming) TV3 is a "commercial supported Public-access tv cable TV station" that broadcasts out of Detroit Lakes for the county-wide Arvig Communication Cable System.
Forum Communications Company of Fargo, North Dakota, owns and operates the Detroit Lakes Newspapers and also provides the county-wide daily newspaper, The Forum of Fargo Moorhead, with coverage spanning the Fargo Moorhead urbane region and much of northwest Minnesota and northeast North Dakota.
Detroit Lakes Tribune (weekly) Lake Area Press (weekly) Amtrak's Empire Builder (stops daily at Detroit Lakes' Amtrak station) Detroit Lakes Airport Detroit Lakes is referred to in the author John Steinbeck's book, Travels with Charley, depicting his 1960 road trip athwart the United States with his dog, Charley.
In the novel, Steinbeck purports to have passed through and stayed the evening near Detroit Lakes.
A postcard depicting the Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes appear in the opening credits of the 1983 movie National Lampoon's Vacation, though the cabins no longer stand as it was finished in May, 2008 by the Detroit Lakes Fire Department in a training exercise.
Ed Schultz, former MSNBC anchor of the eponymous Ed show, often taped or broadcast his show live from a studio in Detroit Lakes.
The 2016 Netflix documentary The Seventh Fire, exposing gang culture on American Indian Reservations, was filmed on locale in Detroit Lakes, encircling towns, and the close-by White Earth Indian Reservation.
Dick Beardsley, champion marathon runner, motivational speaker and author, 3rd-fastest American born male marathon runner, Grandma's Marathon record holder, Boston Marathon silver medalist (1982), founder of Dick Beardsley Running Company, formerly resided in Detroit Lakes Jason Blake, current National Hockey League player, Anaheim Ducks left/right wing, presently resides in Detroit Lakes Phil Hansen, retired American football player for the National Football League, Buffalo Bills defensive end 1991 2001, 3-time Super Bowl participant, presently resides in Detroit Lakes Collin Peterson, current United States Congressman, ranking member of House Agriculture Committee, Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, 7th Congressional District of Minnesota, presently resides in Detroit Lakes Dave Reichert, current United States Congressman, Republican Party, 8th Congressional District of Washington, was born in Detroit Lakes Ed Schultz, syndicated talk radio host, cable news anchor of The Ed Show on MSNBC, cyclicly resides in Detroit Lakes Jessica Lange, actress, briefly lived in Detroit Lakes, where she attended her junior year of high school (ca.
Caroline Smith, musician, singer/songwriter for Indie Rock band Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps, interval up in Detroit Lakes Mortenson, youngest Racine, Wisconsin City Council President in the city's history, served as one of the major strategic creators following 9/11 for OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM, OPERATION INHERIT RESOLVE, former Becker County Administrator, has a home in Detroit Lakes.
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"Lake Agassiz Regional Library Branch Info".
"Detroit Lakes Community & Cultural Center Information".
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