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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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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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This Day in Minnesota History (July 09)

1823

Major Stephen H. Long leaves Fort St. Anthony (later called Fort Snelling) to explore areas of present-day Minnesota then unknown to the United States. Giacomo C. Beltrami joins Long as he travels up the Minnesota River and then down the Red River to Lake Winnipeg.

1832

Lewis Cass, territorial governor of Michigan, forbids the sale of liquor on Native American lands under his control, including the area around Fort Snelling.

1835

Dr. Thomas S. Williamson and Alexander Huggins establish the Lac qui Parle mission to the Dakota, which operates for twenty years.

1902

The National Afro-American Council, a precursor to the NAACP, holds a meeting at the state capitol, and business, social, education, and religious leaders discuss strategies for improving the position of African Americans nationwide.

1932

Carl F. Hirte sets up a homestead claim in the middle of St. Paul's Union Depot rail yard. Hirte had discovered that a nearly five-acre tract in the middle of the yard had never been claimed, and, in accordance with the Homestead Act, he builds a shack for housing. His attorney values the land at $1,000,000.

1975

The reassembly of steam engine 201—once operated by Casey Jones and the last of its kind in existence—is complete and ready for display on the grounds of the Owatonna Tool Company. Reuben Kaplan and his son, "Buzz," brought the engine from Peoria, and they would move the Owatonna Union Depot building to the same site the following year.

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