Early Hastings

Historical marker location:

Hastings Public Square, Hastings, Minnesota

( Marker is on 3rd Street East, 0 miles east of Vermillion Street (U.S. 61), on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2002

The first female mayor in the United States was elected in Minnesota in 1887. Susanna Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas, but she was originally from Minnesota.