Sauk Centre is the home of Sinclair Lewis, a world-famous novelist and America's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Alexander Moore and associates staked out the boundaries of Sauk Centre and in June of 1857 erected a dam across the Sauk River.

Logging and milling on the lake and river provided the nucleus on which the City of Sauk Centre was built.

In the late 1870's the railroad arrived and became the meeting terminal for the Northern Pacific and Great Northern rail lines

Sauk Centre was incorporated as a village on February 12, 1876.