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9 unusual facts about Cass County


Adamsville, Michigan

Adamsville, Michigan is a populated place in Cass County, Michigan.

Andrew H. Burke

He next became a cashier of the First National Bank of Casselton and then, for six years, the Treasurer of Cass County.

Cass County, Iowa

Earl Caddock, a champion amateur and pro wrestler of the 1910s and early 1920s.

Cass County, Michigan

Southwestern Michigan College operates the Fred Mathews Library on its Campus in Dowagiac.

Cass County, Missouri

The other half of Cass County is included in Missouri’s 5th Congressional District and is currently represented by Emanuel Cleaver (D-Kansas City) in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Maple Valley Public School District

The Maple Valley Public School District is a public school district in Barnes and Cass counties in the U.S. state of North Dakota, based in Tower City, North Dakota.

Mary Olson

Mary A. Olson (born May 23, 1958) is a Minnesota politician and a former member of the Minnesota Senate who represented District 4, which includes portions of Beltrami, Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard and Itasca counties in the northern part of the state.

Mid-America Regional Council

The Mid-America Regional Council serves the nine county Kansas City metropolitan area, including Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte and Ray Counties in Missouri and Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas.

United States presidential election in North Dakota, 1996

All major counties in North Dakota turned out for Dole, including the (relativity) highly populated center of Cass County, which contains the city of Fargo.


Battle of Sugar Point

The Battle of Sugar Point, or the Battle of Leech Lake, was fought on October 5, 1898 between the 3rd U.S. Infantry and members of the Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians in a failed attempt to apprehend Pillager Ojibwe Bugonaygeshig ("Old Bug" or "Hole-In-The-Day"), as the result of a dispute with Indian Service officials on the Leech Lake Reservation in Cass County, Minnesota.

Heartland Messenger

The Heartland Messenger is a monthly watchdog newspaper written by and for the people of Douglas, Sarpy, and Cass counties in the U. S. State of Nebraska, and Pottawattamie county in Iowa.

Loch Lloyd, Missouri

The Village of Loch Lloyd is a private gated resort-like community in northwestern Cass County, Missouri, United States adjacent the Kansas border on the south side of the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Tower City, North Dakota

In 1878, a man named George Ellsbury, a former artist for Harper's Weekly and Leslie's Illustrated Magazine turned real estate agent, came to Tower's lands in Cass and Barnes Counties, ND.


see also

Bartow County Courthouse

The first courthouse built in Cassville, while the county was known as Cass County, was burned by General Sherman's troops in 1864.

Calvin Township, Michigan

Calvin Township was organized in 1835 and named for Calvin Britain who represented Cass County in the state legislature.

George R. Wicker

The Battle of Sugar Point, or the Battle of Leech Lake, was fought on October 5, 1898 between the 3rd Infantry and members of the Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians in a failed attempt to apprehend Pillager Ojibwe Bugonaygeshig ("Old Bug" or "Hole-In-The-Day"), as the result of a dispute with Indian Service officials on the Leech Lake Reservation in Cass County, Minnesota.

Illinois Route 125

Points of interest marked on IL-125, but not directly on the road, include the Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area in eastern Cass County northwest of Ashland, and the old Cass County courthouse in Beardstown where lawyer Abraham Lincoln practiced.

Jefferson Township, Cass County, Indiana

Davis Cemetery is located a mile east of Burnettsville and a half mile east of the White County-Cass county line, and is commonly referred to as the Davis Cemetery Burnettsville in obituaries.

Riders of the Whistling Pines

"Hair of Gold" (Sunny Skylar) by Gene Autry and the The Cass County Boys and The Pinafores