Editing Mazeppa, Minnesota (section)

==History==
Mazeppa was [[plat]]ted in 1855, and named in honor of Hetman [[Ivan Mazepa]] via a poem by [[Lord Byron]].<ref name="Upham 557">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog | title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance | publisher=Minnesota Historical Society | last=Upham | first=Warren | year=1920 | page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n574 557]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Where Did Minnesota Towns Get Names? Most Colorful in U.S. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1637298/minnesota_town_names/|newspaper=The Winona Republican-Herald|date=July 12, 1949|page=15|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date=January 24, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref> The first census was taken in 1860, it showed 534 residents. The town was incorporated in 1877.<ref name="Upham 557" /> Mazeppa in its early years was a flour milling center and boasted 7 trains a day at its peak. The line was nicknamed the "Bug Line" due to the crooked nature of the line east of town. The mill during its best years produced 600 barrels of flour a day and had 80 employees.  The mill was powered by a turbine from water held back by  26 foot tall wooden dam on the Zumbro River and formed the "Mill Pond" as seen in historical pictures. The mill had its ups and downs until it burned down on Feb 2, 1891, foul play was suspected. The last train left Mazeppa in 1952. Despite valiant efforts at growth and industry,  Mazeppa has since moved into the 21st Century as a quiet, well kept farm & bedroom community.

The Mazeppa Public School was built in 1858 and further expanded on many times including a new High School completed in 1958. A fire on December 26, 1975, destroyed the historic elementary school. The newer adjoining high school and 1940s gymnasium were saved from the blaze by the heroic efforts of Mazeppa residents Keith Ramthun & Joseph Liffrig who managed to close the fire doors leading to the high school and gymnasium before the fire department arrived. The Mazeppa Public School system merged with the Zumbrota Public School system in fall of 1987 to create the Zumbrota-Mazeppa Public Schools represented by the mascot the "Cougars".<ref name="Mazeppa Public School">{{Cite web|url=http://www.mazeppahistoricalsociety.org/mazeppa-public-school.html|title=Mazeppa Public School|website=Mazeppa Area Historical Society|language=en|access-date=January 27, 2017}}</ref>

The city contains one property listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]: the 1904 [[Walnut Street Bridge (Mazeppa, Minnesota)|Walnut Street Bridge]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Minnesota National Register Properties Database |url=http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/nrhp/ |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |year=2009 |access-date=February 11, 2018}}</ref>