Buckman is in Morrison County, Minnesota. The small city is in the central part of the state. Minnesota Highway 25 and County Road 34 are the chief routes through the community. The first recorded settler was Joseph Mischke, who came to farm in 1871. Others soon followed, including Clarence B. Buckman, for whom the resulting settlement was named. Buckman built a large farm, later serving two terms as a state legislator, as a US Representative, and as a US Deputy Marshall. Named for him, Buckman Township was formed in 1874. A parochial school was opened there in 1887, as a ministry of St. Michael’s Church, operating until 1990, its building demolished in 2012. The city’s public schools were closed several years ago, and its students are bused to nearby Pierz. Other nearby localities include Brennyville, Genola, Gilman, Gregory, Jakesville, Lastrup, Little Rock, Morrill, North Benton, North Prairie, Ramey, Rice, Royalton, and Vawter. Little Falls is about eighteen miles west, and St. Cloud is about thirty miles south of Buckman. Never having a population as high as three hundred, Buckman went through a period of population decline between 1930 and 1970, but its population has been growing since.
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Locally owned and operated in Buckman, Minnesota, the store offers a selection of equipment for stores and other commercial businesses, including refrigerators and freezers, walk-in coolers or refrigerators, ovens, ranges and fryers, meat processing equipment, stainless steel shelves and display cases, floral display cases, and deli and bakery cases, including remanufactured equipment and other supplies.
http://britzequipment.com/
Dedicated in September of 1903, St. Michael’s was built of red pressed Menominee brick, with trimmings made from Pierz gray granite. Part of the Diocese of St. Cloud, the Roman Catholic church has served the Catholic community of Buckman and the surrounding area for over a century. Parish staff and groups are identified, and schedules of its liturgical ministries, mass times, and weekly bulletins are published to the site.
http://www.stjosephs-stmichaels.org/
Sunrise Agricultural Cooperative
Established in 1998 when Buckman Creamery, Little Rock Creamery, and Lastrup Creamery merged, the co-op maintains its main offices, a feed mill creamery, transfer station, scale, corn dryer and a feed store in Buckman, a feed store in Little Rock and another in Lastrup, as well as a power equipment store and repair shop in Pierz, Minnesota. Its locations, hours, products and services are highlighted.
http://www.sunriseagcoop.com/
