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kanoes

03/09/2009 09:54PM

just wondering who grew up in the smallest home town.

me? north freedom, wi

population 591.

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schweady

03/09/2009 09:58PM

I'm guessing Minneapolis isn't going to win. Roosevelt Teddy here. Class of '72.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." -- Yogi Berra

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dzander7

03/09/2009 10:05PM

Looks like I'm the early leader:

I grew up in Rosholt, WI
population: 518

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shoreviewswede

03/09/2009 10:12PM

I'm with Schweady... a South Mpls Teddy.

Be Nice -Swede

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Krusty555

03/09/2009 10:26PM

I'll see that and lower you 200. Laytonsville, MD. 299 souls in 1970. It's down to 277 now, but I'm moving back.

Krusty

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." John Muir

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Big Tent

03/09/2009 10:40PM

Moved from Cyrus, MN (pop. 360) when I was 5 to south Mpls, another Teddy, class of '71.

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schweady

03/09/2009 10:52PM

Bully! Looks like we need to start a new Sagamore thread.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." -- Yogi Berra

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rogerson

03/09/2009 11:12PM

Egan, SD. Pop 251 according to the sign as you enter town. (Ignore the "Egan: next three exits" sign!)

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." Hunter S Thompson

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jenrobsdad

03/09/2009 11:48PM

Carver, MN about 700 at the time I lived there

Protect the BWCA as if it was your own property!

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TwoByGreenCanoe

03/10/2009 12:31AM

Posen Michigan last census was 292 people.

My graduating class was 44 and that included 4 foreign exchange students.

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Unas10

03/10/2009 05:24AM

I grew up on a hog farm 5 miles from Belmont, WI (approx 600 when I was there). 46 graduates in the clas of '79.

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gutmon

03/10/2009 06:19AM

Albert Lea, MN. Class of 76- graduated with 550 kids...guess I'm out of the running for this contest. My dad graduated from Miltown, WI with a class of 38. He was short and not too graceful, but talked about playing basketball in high school. I asked him once, "Dad, how did you make the basketball team?" His answer, "You need five guys to play."

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mipe4

03/10/2009 07:27AM

I grew up on a farm 3 miles from Macedonia, IA. The population then was right at 200. It's down to about 175 now.

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Winemaker

03/10/2009 08:06AM

Ok, I was born in Muncie, Indiana (pop 119,000)

I grew up in Celina, Ohio (pop 10,800)

I live in Converse, Indiana (pop 1,160)

How about my wife, she grew up in Pine Village, Indiana (pop 234)

hummm?

"Opening a bottle of wine in a canoe is a desirable, but irrational act."

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mcmillcd

03/10/2009 08:10AM

Harveysburg Ohio when I was growing up it was 437 and as of the 2000 census it is pulling in a whopping 563.

“If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?” - Will Rodgers

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HighPlainsDrifter

03/10/2009 08:27AM

Born: Adams, Massachusetts (population then was about 6,000)

Later on: Adams, Oregon (population 240)

"Boredom, Tyler - that's what's wrong. And how do you beat boredom, Tyler?... Adventure...(Never Cry Wolf, 1983)

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Dennisal

03/10/2009 08:38AM

From Elizabeth, IL. Population 750. High School (Elizabeth Terrapins) graduating class 1967, 29 grads.

Never lost. All portages and roads go somewhere or they would not be there.

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solotrek

03/10/2009 08:45AM

I grew up in Amherst, WI -- population 596. Class of '65 had 52 graduates. Gotta love the small town life!

"It is in solitude, in quiet communication with nature that we reach most deeply into truth." Sam Campbell

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GrampaMike

03/10/2009 09:17AM

HPD....Is Adams, WI in your future? It's the Adams County seat.

Me, I grew up in Horicon, WI (pop 3 thousand some)

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gbusk

03/10/2009 09:41AM

Hometown: Duluth

Current town: St. Louis Park/Mpls

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RoJoYo

03/10/2009 09:49AM

Grew up in a little river town in Kentucky along the mighty Ohio...population around 5,000 in the 1960's....Ludlow, Kentucky.

"You don't stop playing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop playing." B. Franklin

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shoreviewswede

03/10/2009 09:51AM

Looks like mipe4 of Amherst, IA @ 200 souls is the low bidder.
Do I hear 180? 180?

Be Nice -Swede

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leag

03/10/2009 09:52AM

I grew up on a farm outside of Clothe, Minnesota. Pop. 12
But I did attend school in Long Prairie, Minnesota.

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marc24

03/10/2009 10:02AM

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Trix

03/10/2009 10:30AM

Born in Long Praire, MN. Lived there until my 6th grade year. (Leag, I know you are younger than me but do you have any older brothers or sisters? Maybe I know them.) Moved to Madison, MN. for a couple years & then in my 8th grade year ended up in Underwood, MN where I graduated with a class of about 45. Last census population of Underwood was 337. Loved growing up in a small town but couldn't wait to get out of there once I graduated!

C-H-A-L-L-E-N-G-E: Do not let what you cannot do, interfere with what you can do.

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Savage Voyageur

03/10/2009 10:42AM

Fargo N. Dak, population about 10000

"So many lakes, so little time." WWJD

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03/10/2009 10:47AM

Minneapolis FTW (not)-South High class of '97 my graduating class was bigger than some of your hometowns

Did any of you Teddy clowns know my uncle Dan Albrecht (a couple of you are the right age)? Not sure if I should admit the relation:)

tg

and into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul

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talusman

03/10/2009 10:48AM

Gee, I feel like I live in a large town. Finland, Mn pop about 700.

He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone; He's a man who won't fit in.

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bapabear

03/10/2009 10:49AM

Grew up in Rio(Long i sound not e), WI. Was around 600 when growing up now we are over 900. Small towns for me to live in anytime.

dzander- know someone named Ron Simonis from Rosholt?

My superhero name is TYPOMAN. Writer of wrongs.

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bapabear

03/10/2009 10:49AM

Grew up in Rio(Long i sound not e), WI. Was around 600 when growing up now we are over 900. Small towns for me to live in anytime.

dzander- know someone named Ron Simonis from Rosholt?

My superhero name is TYPOMAN. Writer of wrongs.

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bapabear

03/10/2009 10:56AM

sorry

My superhero name is TYPOMAN. Writer of wrongs.

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shr2807

03/10/2009 11:30AM

I grew up in Stewartsville, MO. Population 732 at that time. We had 21 in our graduating class. That included 2 foreign exchange students and some girl none of us had ever met. I since had moved to a Town of about 80,000 people and lived there for about 10 years. I got tired of that so I moved back to my home town. Well actually out in the county near my hometown.

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03/10/2009 11:41AM

Fedscreek, KY

Grad class of '65 was 41.

Don't know the population - some people back in the hollow's never were counted!

Dave "....and, when there are no longer any beckoning mirages ahead, a man dies. With an open horizon constantly before him, life can be an eternal challenge". - Sigurd F. Olson.

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thlipsis29

03/10/2009 11:57AM

Born in Sandwich, IL with a population around 5,000. Right next to Plano, IL where they used to make the world famous tacklebox; plant shut down a few years ago.

"While Jesus can make you wonderfully happy, he has no intention of making you normal." Erwin McManus

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Krusty555

03/10/2009 12:16PM

Krusty,
Laytonsville? My god man, that is almost DC isnt it? If I am right i'm sure it's not a small town anymore. Size of town? I couldn't see my neighbors houses in Pylesville, MD. Is that even considered a town then?

Well, Marc it's about 25 miles away from our Nation's Capital, which, I'll grant you, isn't far enough, but it's still pretty much the same small town it was in the last century, though it has a Wikipedia page now, (but then, so does Pylesville). The McMansions have pretty much consumed all the farms around Laytonsville, though.

Laytonsville Wiki

Krusty

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." John Muir

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JolietJake

03/10/2009 12:41PM

I lived in Symerton IL 45 miles south of Chicago until I was 8 years old as of 2000, there were 106 people, 34 households.

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emptynest56

03/10/2009 04:27PM

Manitowoc, WI Population 33,000 right on Lake Michigan and in the area of highest per capita beer consumption in the new world.

"Did you bring the coffee?" "No. I thought you were."

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card0056

03/10/2009 04:41PM

Hermosa SD, about 270 people when I grew up near there. School was K - 8 and 2 grades shared a classroom each and its still like this today.

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ILikePike

03/10/2009 04:44PM

6472 in Delafield, Wi in 2000

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit” -Edward Abbey

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The Lorax

03/10/2009 04:46PM

Pocono Pines, PA

Lots of summer homes. The year 'round population is tiny even to this day (maybe 300-400 but spread out over a large area). It balloons in the summer and then after Labor Day, nothing but silence. Very spread out, no real center of town because there is no actual town. It's in the center of nature Conservancy land, State Game Lands and Bethlehem Water Authority land all around it.

About 6 miles away from Pocono Raceway for you NASCAR fans.

I love the smell of silnylon in the morning. It smells like........victory!

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rlhedlund

03/10/2009 05:09PM

Kingston, MN
2000 census = 120 people per wikipedia (and 27 dogs)

I was actually born in Litchfield, but home was Kingston for a short time. My grandfather built a bathroom in the basement of the house he built when my mom was pregnant with me so she would not have to go to the outhouse as I was born in February in Minnesota.

My uncle now lives on the farm and still fires up the original sauna my grandfather built.

I actually grew up all over the US courtesy of the Navy. 14 schools, and I didn't even have to repeat a grade.

Life is Good, Living is Better. Everlasting Life is Best! Pray for Us Amok.

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Toby

03/10/2009 05:28PM

Grew up in Belvidere IL roughly 18000 people. My wife however grew up in Gilmanton, WI roughly 300 people...

I don't want a large Farva... I want a GD liter-a-cola!

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Bannock

03/10/2009 05:35PM

I'm not in contention, but my kids have grown up in the Village of New Hartford, MN (Winona County), not to be confused with New Hardford Township. It is even on the Minnesota State Highway Map, though you'll never know you were there.

We do have a population sign - 6 1/2. It was made when my wife was pregnant with our daughter. It was my family of three and my neighbor's family of three, and my not yet born daughter. That was all there were within the boundry of the village.

My property has the General Store, Ice House, Carriage House, and Creamery. My neighbor has the Old Grain Mill, Soda Pop Factory, and One-Room School House. Of course none are in operation and serve as sheds now.

Bannock

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pilot1

03/10/2009 05:56PM

I lived just out side of Aldrich, MN on a farm for 8 years while growing up. 2000 population: 53
Aldrich

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Bannock

03/10/2009 06:00PM

I have to share this. I googled the Village of New Hartford not expecting a thing and got Memories of New Hartford , which desribes the Village long before I moved there. I am thrilled!!!

The house she describes is my neighbor's house. I now live in the General Store and everything described took place on either my or my neighbor's property. What a treasure!!!!

Bannock

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Canoe Dude

03/10/2009 06:56PM

born and raised in duluth, live in st.cloud now

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hiawatha

03/10/2009 07:08PM

Mt. Auburn, Iowa pop. 134, used to be 215 when we lived around there.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. --- Henry David Thoreau

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tobiedog

03/10/2009 08:14PM

Grew up in New Castle, PA but really consider Waconia, MN my hometown now.

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zeropointd

03/10/2009 08:30PM

Hometown of Manvel, ND (10 miles up 1-29 from Grand Forks). Population 370 as of the 2000 census.

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shoreviewswede

03/10/2009 08:35PM

This Teddy Clown knew no Dan Albrecht

Be Nice -Swede

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deltaducky

03/10/2009 09:25PM

Savage Voyageur,

I think you missed a zero in that fargo number.

DD

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deltaducky

03/10/2009 09:26PM

Brandon, MN population 492 when I graduated in 85. graduated with 29 people in my class.

Know live in Fargo.

DD

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wildernessjoe

03/10/2009 09:48PM

My vote is for Bannock, tough to beat 6.5. I'm too close to a big city, grew up in Frankfort Square, IL, population 1800.

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OBX2Kayak

03/10/2009 09:56PM

Grew up in Mahtomedi, MN ... population 501 (at that time) according to the sign when you entered town. Actual "breathing" population back then was somewhere around 460, but you got extra state highway money if the population was over 500.

"Suburban" Point Harbor, NC on the Albemarle Sound is now my home ... population about 120. Spent too much time in NYC and Washington, DC before moving here.

"I go because it irons out the wrinkles in my soul" -- Sigurd Olson

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jamotrade

03/11/2009 11:05AM

I grew up in Massatwoshits. Almost no small towns there anymore...

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pikeman

03/11/2009 11:48AM

the big city of Aitkin MN. pop 1700 something ( no reimer jokes please)

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Mickeal

03/11/2009 11:58AM

Richards Tx. I was one of ten in my senior class. Two grade per class room. Grew up feeding and milking cows. Never want to do it again.

My last big fish has yet to be caught.

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HighPlainsDrifter

03/11/2009 12:14PM

Jamo
Massatwoshits LOL. Where in?
I, a native of, have never seen that. We lovingly called it Taxachusetts

BTW, there are still small towns in the Berkshires of MA

"Boredom, Tyler - that's what's wrong. And how do you beat boredom, Tyler?... Adventure...(Never Cry Wolf, 1983)

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PolishPaddler

03/11/2009 12:42PM

I grew up in Nevis, MN population 197. I had 15 people in my class until 7th grade that's when I transferred to Park Rapids, MN.

The nice part about Nevis is that there are 90 lakes in a 10 mile radius.

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, one finds it's attached to the rest of the world" - John Muir

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jamotrade

03/11/2009 01:04PM

HPD,

Grew up in Canton, MA. Mom lives in Falmouth now. We always called ourselves Massholes.

The Berkshires are beautiful. I went to High School in Salisbury, CT.

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overthehill

03/11/2009 08:25PM

I don't know the population of our southern Ohio farming burg, but our graduating class had 77 which was a record breaker (at the time). Not much has changed since the mid seventies; just the usual businesses moving to the fringes and the landscape becoming more dense with housing. Alot of new faces, so I'm guessing the population has doubled or more over the last 30-40 years. Most of the old fishponds,creeksides,and hunting grounds seem to have changed hands and have 'no tresspassing' signs posted but not all. "You'll Have That". :)

Not to Hurry-Not to Worry

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BigZig

03/11/2009 08:48PM

First 26 years - Duluth, MN population about 100,000
last 22 years - Champlin, MN population about 24,000. But I consider myself livin' in the cities. ugh!

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hapstap

03/12/2009 09:51AM

Big city (compared to most of you) of Marquette, MI. Temporarily (14 yrs) in Appleton, WI. Been to Freedom, WI many times, must have missed the sign for North Freedom.

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Ozarker

03/12/2009 11:13AM

I'm way down the list at Marshall, MO (Pop. 12,092) when I was there up to 1975. Maybe I can qualify with my wife growing up in Alburnett, IA, population 274

"Always leave the woodpile higher than when you found it."

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Jeriatric

03/12/2009 12:51PM

My hometown, Friant, California, had a population of 581 in July of 2007. I have no idea what the population was in 1946, when I was born. Although I spent a number of years in Friant, I spread my growing up among half-a-dozen small towns and cities. I went to 3 different elementary schools, 2 junior high schools, and 3 different high schools. My folks moved a lot.

The business of life is the acquisition of memories. In the end that's all there is. ___Mr Carson (Downton Abby)

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L.T.sully

03/12/2009 05:10PM

South Bend IN 107,000 people.

The creation of a thousand forests is in a single acorn- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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missing it

03/12/2009 08:47PM

I grew up in Grand Rapids MN not michigan pop. 9,000 and now live crosby MN pop. 2000.

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whiteh20

03/12/2009 09:07PM

Maysville MO. 1100; Graduating class of 48.

"With an ax, you can build a life. With a stove, you can boil water. That is if nothing breaks and you don't run out of fuel." -Samuel Hearne

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mattmilleroutdoors

03/12/2009 11:04PM

born in boston moved to minnesota in 91

Melted Drags and Tight Lines!

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Krusty555

03/13/2009 04:32AM

By the way, Kanoes, North Freedom is a really cool name for a town.

Krusty

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." John Muir

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amhacker22@hotmail.com

03/13/2009 05:29AM

I grew up in Owatonna, MN. Population 20,000. It feels like the big city compared to some of these places.

My wife, however, grew up in Wild Rose, WI. Population 765. I feel like a town called Wild Rose deserves to have a country western song written about it.

-Nick

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benr0

03/13/2009 09:45AM

Lets see, grew up in Sioux City, Ia - maybe 86,000 when I was there, but spent time every year in Beaver Creek,MN - cousins farm.
Now in KC area.......for now......looking to put the move to a smaller area on the radar.

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Kendra

03/13/2009 12:50PM

Hometown; Delano MN. Pop then 3000. Graduated with 106........... Hey Trix and Leag,........ I've spent a lot of time in LP. My mom grew up there.
Know any Host's or Klienschmidt's or Schenk's??

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dougroy84