Way back in the early days of Benton County, before there was a county fair, there were Market Days pretty much in every community and they were wildly popular.
Your local historical society is a great place to preserve old artifacts and facts from our past, but sometimes they are called on to do a little detective work too.
Municipal Park along the Mississippi River on the north end of Sauk Rapids is a very popular park. However, at one point that was a completely different townsite.
Sauk Rapids is marking the 136th anniversary of the deadly tornado that devastated the town. The storm happened at about 4:00 p.m. on April 14th, 1886.
For a short time in the middle of Benton County's Watab Township there used to be a town by the same name. Watab was built at the same time as Sauk Rapids and both were incorporated in 1854.