No homes with frontage at Lake Darling are available right now (four properties that have frontage on Darling or deeded or share access have For Sale signs in front of them but all are in escrow) for purchase. If there is anyone out there with a Lake Darling home that has been thinking of selling, now is the time. Your property is really going to stand out, will have no competition, and garner quite a few eyeballs online. That will ...
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Recorded on Monday, August 14th of 2017 above South Darling Drive in Alexandria, Minnesota ...
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Here is a short video that takes you along Alexandria's Carlos Darling Drive starting just a little east of the Carlos Darling Channel and then straight onward to Lake Le Homme Dieu. It wasn't too many years ago that you could walk or drive through the area at the end of the video but that all changed with the project a few years ago that widened Nokomis and added bike lanes. It was a pain during the project but I ...
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In Alexandria north of Arrowwood Resort and big Lake Darling is Lake Louise which was named after the daughter of Charlie Cook who had settled in Alexandria in 1858. He had been a fur merchant in London and a member of the Hudson Bay Company. Mr. Cook was the first postmaster of Alexandria and after a few years moved to the east coast and later to London where he spent the remainder of his life. I have also read that ...
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Yesterday, lake lot sales in Alexandria came up in a discussion with a client and I was reminded that this will be the last year a classic cottage on Lake Darling's Darling Drive will grace the shoreline. It is a 'pending' sale in the Alexandria MLS without contingencies and even though I have been told what the plans are, the plans to tear down is also in the description of the property in the MLS listing. For me, a lover ...
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Instead of lake breezes and the sound of a loon, the home at 112 Country Club Heights Road in Alexandria has green (literally greens) and the quiet a golf course provides, outside the windows and doors. But besides having the front nine of the Alexandria Golf Club to enjoy it has Lake Darling .3 miles from the front door. What is best is after a brief walk, bike or drive, the owners can go for a boat ride to Zorbaz ...
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Guilty. That I am, of spending too much time focused on my smartphone or tablet. But, I have gotten much better at living in the moment and my phone is put away when driving. You won't see me walking through city streets looking at my phone and if I am with someone at a restaurant my phone is out of sight. It still amazes me when I visit large cities such as New York City that so many people are ...
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Less than 48 hours before everyone in Alexandria, Minnesota was jarred back into reality with snow and ice I recorded a short trip around Little Darling. It is a counter clockwise trip beginning facing the properties along Casa Marina Road. If you look closely you can see Lake Alvin behind it. Big Darling is in the rear as the tour continues. You will see two points. On the right at the end of Casa Marina Lane is Glendovan Point. Across ...
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The dog in the video is an English Springer Spaniel named Piper that lives next door to me at Lake Darling. If Piper had her way, she would run and jump into the lake over and over again until she fell over in exhaustion. I am with her and love being able to help her addiction. Below are some other videos I found on YouTube of dogs enjoying jumps into lakes ...
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