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About Sauk Centre, MN

Most local histories relate the naming of the town was done through a lottery. The eight original town shareholders submitted suggestions for a name. The name Sauk Centre was selected. The name had been submitted by Alexander Moore, the man who originally bought and platted the town. Sauk referred to the many place names associated with the Sauk tribe (Sauk River, Sauk Rapids, Little Sauk, Osakis etc.) The exact reason for the proliferation of Sauk name places in this area is still being researched as by the time settlement occurred here the land was understood to be Sioux/Dakota land ceded in the Treaty of 1846.<Minnesota and Its People JA Burnquist 1924 p88> Local lore has it that 5 refugees from the Sauk tribe had been killed in an ambush on the shores of Lake Osakis 17 miles away.