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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 20)
Jesse Reno is born in Wheeling, West Virginia. In 1853, General Reno surveyed the military road from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Mendota, a route of 279 miles. He was killed in the Civil War.
William A. Hazel, an African American architect, files suit after the Clarendon Hotel in St. Paul refuses to rent him a room.
Dave and John Kunst and their mule, Willie-Make-It, set out from their Waseca home to walk around the earth. In Afghanistan, bandits attack the brothers, killing John and wounding Dave. Dave's brother Pete then joins him until they reach the Indian Ocean. Dave returns to Waseca on October 5, 1974, the first person to walk around the earth, 14,450 miles in all.
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