Martin County (pop. 20,840) is just east of Jackson County. It’s one of six Martin counties in the U.S.
The county seat of Martin County is Fairmont (pop. 10,666). Fairmont has a string of five lakes on its west side.
Aerial view of Fairmont
The Martin County Courthouse was built in 1907.
The Fairmont Opera House was built in 1901.
It hosts a variety of concerts and other events.
According to legend, the naming of the town of Ceylon (pop. 369) was inspired by a box of tea from Ceylon.
Walter Mondale was born in Ceylon.
The town of Welcome was named for early homesteader Alfred M. Welcome.
Trinity Lutheran Church, Welcome
I spent part of my childhood in Trimont in the late 1970’s. It’s an interesting place populated by a strong and fiercely independent people. It actually used to be two separate towns, Triumph and Monterey each about a mile apart on the same road and each founded by competitive railroaders. (The two tracks cross about a mile north of town) Even though I lived there twenty years after the two towns were merged in 1959, some folks from Triumph would still refuse to set foot in or drive to Monterey and vice-versa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimont,_Minnesota