Raymond, Leona Evelyn (1908–1998)

A sculptor who got her start in the WPA Federal Art Project

Evelyn Raymond, 1959

St. Peter and St. Paul Russian Orthodox Church, Bramble

A sanctuary for Russian immigrants in Koochiching County

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1975 Minneapolis Non-Discrimination Ordinance

Civil rights protection that was the first of its kind in the US

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Flooding of the Red River, 1997

The eighth-costliest flood in US history

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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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This Day in Minnesota History (September 13)

1900

The Chicago Electric Vehicle Company test-drives its first car, in Faribault.

1930

Duluth's municipal airport is dedicated and a crowd of 15,000 attends the ceremony and air show.

1955

Commercial production of taconite at the Reserve Mining Company's plant in Silver Bay begins. Taconite had been developed in 1919, in Babbitt, but large-scale production wasn't begun until Edward W. Davis had perfected a method to process it and the richer parts of the iron ranges had been mined out.

2015

The Hmong American Farmers Association hosts an open house to celebrate the second successful harvest from its 155-acre Vermillion Township farm.

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