Lorne is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Minnesota Falls Township,
Yellow Medicine County, in the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...
of
Minnesota
Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...
.
History
Lorne was laid out in 1898, and named for
Marquess of Lorne, a Governor General of Canada (1878–1883). A post office was established at Lorne in 1905, and remained in operation until 1935.
References
Unincorporated communities in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota
Unincorporated communities in Minnesota
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