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Austin is a city in Mower County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 24,718 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Mower County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The southern part of the city is in Austin Township while the northern part is in Lansing Township; the city is politically independent of both. Austin is located at the intersection of Interstate Highway 90 and U.S. Highway 218 in the southeastern part of the state. The town was originally settled along the Cedar River and it has two man-made lakes called East Side Lake and Mill pond. The town was named for Austin R. Nichols, the first settler in the area. Hormel Foods Corporation is the largest employer in Austin, where its factory makes most of North America's SPAM tinned meat. The Austin Area Chamber of Commerce sponsors an annual Independence Day Freedom Fest. Austin is sometimes called "SPAM Town USA", as it is home to Hormel's headquarters and is home to the SPAM Museum. Austin is also home to the Austin Bruins which are a junior hockey team in the NAHL. ==History== The city was named for Austin Nichols, an early settler, who arrived in 1853. At that time there were "about twenty families in the area."〔 More settlers began to arrive by wagon train in 1855, and by 1856, enough people were present to organize a county, Mower County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate = 2012-03-03 )〕 "The first newspaper, the Mower County Mirror, was started in 1858."〔 In the 1930s, Austin Acres was built with funding from the Subsistence Homesteads Division of the Department of the Interior. In 2011, an Austin Police Department dog named Ghost took first place at the USPCA Police Dog Field Trials, the largest competition of police dogs in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = United States Police Canine Association )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Austin, Minnesota」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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