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To preserve, interpret and promote the history of Dakota County.

Cities and Townships

Eureka

Eureka, School north of the Vermillion River 1956
Eureka, School north of the Vermillion River 1956

Eureka was named, legend has it, for the exclamation “Eureka” when the earliest settlers arrived. Settled by migrants from Indiana and immigrants from Norway, its gentle landscape has been home to nurseries, including Bachman’s, since the 1960s.