Frontenac State Park

A dramatic landscape 500 million years in the making

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Flour City Ornamental Iron Works Strike, 1935

A conflict between workers and police that led to two deaths

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Ulrich, Mabel S. (1876–1945)

From sex education to the Federal Writers' Project

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Washburn A Mill

The birthplace of one of the biggest modern food companies in the world

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Pardon Power in Nineteenth-Century Minnesota

An era of unprecedented clemency via executive power

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Lippincott, Carrie H. (1860–1941)

The self-proclaimed "Pioneer Seedswoman of America"

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Draining of Glacial Lake Agassiz

The event that created the Minnesota rivers and lakes we know today

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Replacements (band)

Pioneers of alt rock, grunge, and alt country

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Aerial view of East Grand Forks, flooded.
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This Day in Minnesota History (June 22)

1806

Alexander Faribault is born in Prairie du Chien (present-day Wisconsin) to Jean-Baptiste Faribault and his wife, Pelagie Faribault, a métis woman of Dakota and French descent. Alexander became an influential fur trader and politician in the 1840s.

1861

The First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment departs Fort Snelling for Washington, DC, eventually finding both glory and death in the Civil War.

1919

Three windstorms hit Fergus Falls on the same day, leaving fifty-nine dead.

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