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Dred and Harriet Scott in Minnesota

Their time at Fort Snelling became an argument for freedom

Barberry Eradication Program, 1918–1980

An unprecedented cooperative effort between the US Department of Agriculture and twelve states, including Minnesota

Oliver Iron Mining Company

A company at the center of industrialization in the Mesabi Iron Range

Labor and Labor Organizing in Minnesota

Workers in solidarity, from miners to fast-food cashiers

Whitewater State Park

A gem of southeast Minnesota's Driftless Area

Cultural Society of Filipino Americans of Minnesota (CSFA)

Preserving and sharing Filipino culture in the North Star state

Polaris Snowmobiles

The iconic snow vehicle first made in a Roseau machine shop

Spotlight On Rural Communities

4-H Clubs, West Polk County	Ada Village Hall
Beltrami County Poor Farm	Bonanza Farms, Red River Valley
Business and Professional Women’s Club (BPW), Crookston, 1921–1960	Crookston City Hall
Dorcas Circle, Carson Mennonite Brethren Church	Founding of Clontarf
Founding of Hanover	Evacuation of Georgetown, 1862
Harmony Amish	Henrytown
Jewish Immigrants in Brook Park	Minnesota Machinery Museum
Riverfest	Rural Electrification Administration in Minnesota

December 5

1853	Henry M. Rice easily replaces Henry H. Sibley, who chose not to run for re-election, as Minnesota Territory's delegate to Congress. Sibley had won the office by a narrow margin in a previous election following a heated campaign involving fur-trade interests, with "fur" symbolized by Sibley and "anti-fur" by Alexander M. Mitchell, the candidate supported by Rice.
1873	Lincoln County, named for the Civil War president, is created, having been established by the legislature on March 6 and approved by vote of the people in November. Three previous attempts to rename or carve out a county in honor of Lincoln had failed to garner the requisite popular vote.
1950	A snowstorm lasting until December 8 drops thirty-five inches on Duluth and twenty-five on the Twin Cities.

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Virginia and Rainy Lake Lumber Camp 39, about one mile north of Echo Lake, ca. 1916. Visible are the root house (in the foreground, next to the office) and the filling shack. Photograph Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul

Destruction of Bois Forte Ojibwe Homeland, 1891–1929

From 1890 to 1910, timber speculators and lumbermen patented most of the valuable pine lands in north-central Minnesota—the homeland of the Bois Forte Ojibwe. By the 1920s, dams and deforestation had so damaged the landscape that it could no longer support the tribe’s subsistence economy, and its members were forced onto their reservation at Nett Lake.

Quie, Halvor Halvorson (1834–1919)

An early settler-colonist in Wheeling Township (Rice County), Norwegian immigrant Halvor Quie is often remembered as a member of the Second Company of Minnesota Sharpshooters during the Civil War. He was instrumental in local religious and educational affairs and offered lasting support to St. Olaf College.

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