Cities, towns and communities include:  Cleveland, Cordova, Doyle, Elysian, Greenland, Heidelberg, Kasota, Kilkenny, Le Center, Le Sueur, Lexington, Marysburg, Montgomery, New Prague, Ottawa, Rogers, St. Henry, St. Thomas, Union Hill, and Waterville.

Le Sueur County is located in south central Minnesota.  Neighboring Minnesota counties include:  Rice county to the east; Waseca and Blue Earth coutnies to the south; Nicollet and Sibley counties to the west, and Scott county to the north.

• 1895 Map of Le Sueur County, Indiana, by Pam Rietsch at: prietsch@ismi.net
• USGS: Maps of Le Sueur County, Minnesota features - including cemeteries, churches, populated places and more.  Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see the location of the actual feature.  This database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there may be errors.
• Sakatah Lake State Park (stretches 39 miles from Mankato to Faribault, in Rice and LeSueur Counties, MN...)
• Le Sueur County Historical Society
   301 N.E. 2nd Street - Elysian, Minnesota   Phone: (507) 267 - 4620.
• Genealogy Center
• Elysian: A Brief History
• Geldner Sawmill, Beaver Dam, Le Sueur County, MN : "...Built in 1860s- "last remaining steam-powered sawmill..."
• Ottawa Methodist Church, Ottawa, MN :  built 1858 - "The oldest Methodist Church in the State of Minnesota..."
• History on the Hill - Articles Online, Le Sueur County, MN
• The story of my childhood, written for my children. Alice Mendenhall George (1854) brief autobiography written for the author's children and illustrated with photographs pays particular attention to children's activities and education in mid- nineteenth-century Minnesota.  George describes the journey her family made when she was an infant from Indiana to Le Sueur County, Minnesota, and reminisces about her childhood in the villages of Ottawa and Le Sueur, where her father became a partner in a family-owned sawmill. The family moved to Rapidan, in Blue Earth County (south of Mankato), onto land made available by the forced removal of the Winnebago Indians.  See Table of Contents
• Traverse des Sioux Library System or Traverse des Sioux Library System
• Member Library Information: Clickable Map For Information about Individual Public Libraries in Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Le Seur, Martin, Nicollet, Sibley, Waseca and Watonwan Counties.
• Le Sueur County Courthouse & Recorder's Office
  
   88 South Park Avenue - Le Center, MN  56057  Phone: (507) 357-2251
Fees for certified copies of Vital Statistics Records (birth, marriage and death)
• State of Minnesota - North Star, Minnesota State Government Online.
• Department of Health
• How to order a birth or death certificate from the Minnesota Department of Health.
Contact the Minnesota Department of Health for certified Birth records from 1900 and certified Death records from 1908.  Certificates may be ordered by mail, phone, fax, and in person at the office.  There is a fee for obtaining birth or death certificates.
Minnesota Department of Health
  Attention: Vital Records
  717 Delaware Street Southeast
  P.O. Box 9441
  Minneapolis, MN  55440-9441
  Phone: 612-676-5120 (For birth records, press 4; For death records, press 5)
Records prior to these years, may be requested from the County  Registrar/Recorder in the county where the event occurred.
• Instructions on obtaining certificates of marriage or divorce decrees and index search.
• MN Dept. of Health list of County Registrars/Recorders: choose county

School and Library Atlas of the World.  Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor).  Sycamore, Illinois:  School and Library Publishing Company.  1982.
 
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