Granite Falls

This document, sent to the State Site Selection Committee by the Citizens Committee for Higher Education in Granite Falls, gives facts and information in support of the city of Granite Falls as the site of the proposed state college in southwestern Minnesota.

This document is a manuscript of the presentation to the State of Minnesota State College Site Selection Committee by the Granite Falls College Committee, presented at 2:30 p.m., Granite Falls Civic Auditorium, 19th of September 1963, supporting the selection of the city of Granite Falls as the site of the proposed college in Southwestern Minnesota.

This document presents a statistical comparison of Granite Falls' demographics and community information with other cities in southwestern Minnesota, given in support of the City of Granite City as the site for the proposed state college in southwestern Minnesota.

E.T. Messer writes O. Meredith Wilson in support of Granite Falls as the site of the proposed state college in southwestern Minnesota.

This illustration shows Granite Falls in the center of two concentric circles that mark the distance to communities with high schools within a 35 mile and within a 50 mile radius.

Elmer O. Akre wrote that should Lamberton be chosen as the site of the proposed state college in southwestern Minnesota, Yellow Medicine County would donate their portion of the land.

Arnold E. Paulson tells O. Meredith Wilson that he approves keeping materials from the Granite Falls College Committee's presentation for archival purposes.

LeRoy Jacobson wrote Meredith Wilson in support of Granite Falls as the site of the proposed state college in southwestern Minnesota.

The first page of this document has a numbered list of ways people can support the effort to have the proposed state college built in Granite Falls. The second page, titled "Look what we could lose," lists community advantages that would not happen should the proposed state college be located elsewhere.