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The city is named after Albert Miller Lea, a topographer with the United States Dragoons, who surveyed southern Minnesota and northern Iowa in 1835, including the current site of Albert Lea. [8] Captain Nathan Boone, a son of Daniel Boone, was the scout for Lea's unit.
Albert Lea Township (/ ˌælbərt ˈliː / AL-bərt LEE) [3] is a township in Freeborn County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 808 at the 2000 census. Myre-Big Island State Park is within the township. Albert Lea Township was organized in 1857, and named after its primary village, Albert Lea. [4]
Freeborn County is a county in the state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,895. [ 2 ] Its county seat is Albert Lea. [ 3 ] Freeborn County comprises the Albert Lea Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Myre-Big Island State Park. Myre-Big Island State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, just outside the city of Albert Lea. It has an area of 1,578 acres (6.39 km 2). The park protects 8 miles (13 km) of shoreline on Albert Lea Lake. The nucleus of the park is Big Island, a 117-acre (0.47 km 2) island attached to the mainland by a causeway.
The AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project is an initiative aimed at improving well-being that began in January 2009 when the city of Albert Lea, Minnesota, launched the initiative with assistance from the United Health Foundation and led by Dan Buettner, author of " The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest ...
Albert Lea. / 43.64472°N 93.36944°W / 43.64472; -93.36944. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Depot in Albert Lea, Minnesota, United States, is a historic railway station. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The railroad line through Albert Lea was originally built by the Southern ...
Lea College. Coordinates: 43°39′22″N 93°24′47″W. Lea College was a private liberal arts college that operated from 1966 to 1973 in Albert Lea, Minnesota, United States. [1][2] Lea was one of several Midwestern colleges established by local civic leaders with the support and encouragement of Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa.
Minnesota State Highway 13 (MN 13) is a 111.694-mile-long (179.754 km) highway in Minnesota that runs from its intersection with U.S. Highway 65 in Albert Lea to its northern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 149 at the West St. Paul / Saint Paul city boundary line.