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August 20
| 1892 |
On St. Paul's East Side, a five-story building collapses into Swede Hollow. The structure, home to twelve stores and twenty-five families, had been built on a landfill. Luckily, the tenants manage to evacuate the building before its slide into the hollow. |
| 1904 |
A tornado with 110-mile-per-hour winds blows down St. Paul's High Bridge and kills fourteen in the Twin Cities and Stillwater. |
| 1928 |
A tornado strikes Austin, killing five. |
 As a legislator, Helen E. McMillan served Mower County for twelve years. She was also involved in the Red Cross, the Women’s League of Voters, the Human Rights Commission, and the United Council for Church Women. |
 Wadena County contains three known fur trade sites. One is located on private property along the Leaf River where Joseph Réaume, an independent fur trader, set up a winter camp in the late eighteenth century. Between 2011 and 2012, the University of Minnesota conducted archaeological surveys and excavations at this location. They confirmed a late-eighteenth century occupation, validating its association with Réaume's 1792 wintering activities. |
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