Editing Browns Valley, Minnesota (section)

==History==
Browns Valley was first settled in 1867 by [[Joseph R. Brown]], and named for him.<ref name="Upham 551">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShcLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA551 | title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance | publisher=Minnesota Historical Society | last=Upham | first=Warren | year=1920 | page=551}}</ref> The settlement was [[plat]]ted in 1878.<ref name="Upham 551" /> A post office was established in the community in 1867 under the name Lake Traverse.<ref name="Upham 551" /> The post office was renamed Browns Valley in 1872.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Traverse | title=Traverse County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=August 10, 2015}}</ref> Two properties in the city are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]: the 1864 Fort Wadsworth Agency and Scout Headquarters Building within [[Sam Brown Memorial State Wayside]], and the 1916 [[Browns Valley Carnegie Library]].<ref>{{NRISref|2010a}}</ref>