About Siren

The "Syren" post office was first located in the home of Charles P. Segerstrom in 1895. When asked by the Postal Dept. to provide a name for the area he chose "Syren", the Swedish word for "lilac", because of clumps in his yard. The Postal Dept. then changed the spelling of "Syren" to "Siren". When Edwin Nelson became postmaster, the office was moved to his store on Little Doctor's Lake. In 1912, when the Soo Line railroad was being built, it was moved a mile east.