Legend has it that Paul Bunyan picked this stone right out of the Minnesota River.

"That's the largest piece of granite that they ever got out of there and they decided to use it as Paul Bunyan's anchor," said

A tall tale maybe but the Ortonville, Minnesota area is plentiful in stone, granite.

But Mike Rausch, owner of Rausch Granite, says mahogany granite can only be found in this area of the world.

"It became one of the most popular colors in the world that wasn't black or gray. So it became one of the most popular color granites in the world. It's the only place in the world that has this color," said Rausch.

And if you look just past the granite you can see a piece of history.

This building housed POW's from world war two in 1944 and 45.

"When the war was over they went back to their homeland, but they liked it very well here and the only remaining building it the one by the Rausch Granite Company," said Norman Schelsta, Big Stone County Historical Society.

There are log cabins, boats, and an old school house reminding Ortonville, the town that sits just across the Minnesota River, of days gone by.

Another interesting tidbit about Ortonville, Frank Douthitt lived there and invented the whole kernel corn cutter.

Douthitt also developed a type of sweet corn and built a factory in Ortonville.

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This week you can sign up at the Cenex convenience store in Ortonville.

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