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MNopedia
Frontenac State Park
A dramatic landscape 500 million years in the making

Flour City Ornamental Iron Works Strike, 1935
A conflict between workers and police that led to two deaths

Ulrich, Mabel S. (1876–1945)
From sex education to the Federal Writers' Project

Washburn A Mill
The birthplace of one of the biggest modern food companies in the world

Pardon Power in Nineteenth-Century Minnesota
An era of unprecedented clemency via executive power

Lippincott, Carrie H. (1860–1941)
The self-proclaimed "Pioneer Seedswoman of America"

Draining of Glacial Lake Agassiz
The event that created the Minnesota rivers and lakes we know today

Replacements (band)
Pioneers of alt rock, grunge, and alt country

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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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