July 29, 1870 – Established May 23, 1857, Cottonwood County was organized on this date. The county got “its name from the Cottonwood river, which touches the northeast corner of Germantown [here], and to which its northwest townships send their drainage by several small streams flowing northward.”
Upham, Warren; Minnesota Geographic Names, Their Origin and Historic Significance; Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minn., 1969); p. 149
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