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Pardon Power in Nineteenth-Century Minnesota
An era of unprecedented clemency via executive power

St. Peter and St. Paul Russian Orthodox Church, Bramble
A sanctuary for Russian immigrants in Koochiching County

1975 Minneapolis Non-Discrimination Ordinance
Civil rights protection that was the first of its kind in the US

Flooding of the Red River, 1997
The eighth-costliest flood in US history

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

St. Peter and St. Paul Russian Orthodox Church, Bramble
A sanctuary for Russian immigrants in Koochiching County

1975 Minneapolis Non-Discrimination Ordinance
Civil rights protection that was the first of its kind in the US

Flooding of the Red River, 1997
The eighth-costliest flood in US history

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

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This Day in Minnesota History (July 26)
Colonel Henry Leavenworth performs a marriage ceremony for Lieutenant Green, one of the officers at Fort St. Anthony (later called Fort Snelling), and a woman named Miss Gooding. Leavenworth has legal authority to perform marriages not as post commander, but as Indian agent for the lands east of the Mississippi, so he and the couple cross the river for the ceremony.
Almost eight inches of rain falls in St. Paul in a twenty-four-hour period, causing Lake Como to rise fourteen inches.
Pierre Bottineau, the "Kit Carson of the Northwest," dies. Bottineau, the son of an Ojibwe woman and a French fur trader was born in the Red River valley about 1817. Fluent in Ojibwe, French, Dakota, and English, he worked for Henry H. Sibley in the fur trade beginning in 1837. From 1850 to 1870 he led expeditions to Montana and British Columbia and was a guide for Isaac Stevens's transcontinental railroad survey of 1853. During an attack by Dakota forces at Fort Abercrombie in 1862, Bottineau slipped through the lines and went to get help. After retiring in 1870, he spent the rest of his life at Red Lake.
A bicycle built for thirteen―requiring twelve people to peddle and one person to steer―tours St. Paul at the height of the 1890s bicycling craze.
Governor Elmer Benson refuses to give a business license to the Pinkerton Detective Agency, a notorious union-busting group.
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