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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

Frontenac State Park

A dramatic landscape 500 million years in the making

Origins of the Minneapolis Homeless Shelter Movement

An example of public–private collaboration that got people without housing safely indoors

Common Loon

Minnesota's state bird

Spotlight On Cities of Greater Minnesota

Buildings in the Albert Lea Commercial Historic District
Albert Lea Commercial Historic District
Color image of B’nai Israel Synagogue and Dan Abraham Cultural Center, c.2013.
B’nai Israel Synagogue, Rochester
Duluth Incline
Duluth Incline Railway
Color image of the north façade of the Faribault Woolen Mill Company, 2011.
Faribault Woolen Mill Company
Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center
Fergus Falls State Hospital
Birney Quick painting a landscape out in nature, along the shore of a lake, with pine trees in the background.
Grand Marais Art Colony
Color image of the Hopperstad Stave Church Replica, 2011. Photograph by Flickr user Steve Borsch.
Hopperstad Stave Church Replica, Moorhead
Merchants National Bank, Winona
Merchants National Bank, Winona
Old Main, Mankato Normal School
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Colonial Hotel being moved to new site, Hibbing
Relocation of Hibbing, 1919–1921
Tower-Soudan Mine
Soudan Mine, Tower
Chick Simunek is greeted at home plate after hitting a grand slam during a June 20, 1951 game at Rox Stadium, 1951.
St. Cloud Rox
Family members reunited after the Worthington ICE raid
Swift and Company ICE raids, 2006
Willmar 8 on the picket line
Willmar 8 Bank Strike
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May 20

1882

Ten thousand trout and salmon are planted in Rice County's Cedar Lake.

1902

The State Federation of Afro-American Women's Clubs is organized in St. Paul, with the goal of uniting clubs for better communication and productivity. Representatives from clubs in St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Duluth attend the meeting.

1927

Little Falls native Charles A. Lindbergh begins his famous trans-Atlantic flight to Paris, which takes thirty-three and one-half hours.

1989

The forty-two-mile Root River State Trail opens near Lanesboro. The trail winds through the bluffs of southeastern Minnesota along the site of an abandoned railroad.

2007

The Ham Lake fire is finally contained after burning through 75,000 acres of the Superior National Forest and Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

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Flour City Ornamental Iron Works strike casualty
Flour City Ornamental Iron Works Strike, 1935

In 1935, Minneapolis was rocked by radical populist protests as workers responded to the Great Depression, unemployment, and anti-union employers. Industrial unions galvanized discontent and challenged employers, craft unions, and the Farmer-Labor Party. A year after the Teamsters union led combat in the market district of Minneapolis, another union struck eight foundries, including the Flour City Ornamental Iron Works on the city’s south side.

Mabel Ulrich, 1922
Ulrich, Mabel S. (1876–1945)

Mabel Simis Ulrich was a public health educator, physician, author, and public figure whose pioneering work in sex education propelled her onto multiple public health commissions in Minneapolis. She contributed to the cultural scene in Minneapolis through a bookstore that she owned, and headed the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) in Minnesota under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s.

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