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A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
The US Congress establishes the principle of offering land grants to railroads. Federal land grants eventually total 10 million acres, 18.5 percent of the state's land, ranking Minnesota fourth among the states in acreage granted.
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