Entries tagged with ‘Red Wing MN’

Factoid Friday!

Gustavus Adolphus College has not always been the name of the college. In the beginning the school was called Norelius’s School and the Minnesota Elementar Skola (which in the Swedish school system means a preparatory or secondary school). In 1865 after the move to East Union the school was named St. Ansgar’s Academy (to celebrate […]

Factoid Friday!

In 1862, a congregation of of Swedish Lutheran immigrants in Red Wing,  Minn., appropriated funds so their pastor, Eric Norelius, might start a school for their children. Other congregations in the Minnesota Conference of the new Augustana Synod were seeking “preachers and teachers” and appealed to Norelius to open his school to their students as […]