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    Walleye

    The state fish of Minnesota and a perennial fan favorite

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    Vietnamese Community of Minnesota

    A nonprofit organization active since 1981

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    Paul Bunyan Canoe Derby

    A 450-mile race that took place on the Mississippi River between 1940 and 1960

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    Minnesota Lynx

    The women's basketball team that won four WNBA championship titles in six years.

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    Virginia and Rainy Lake Company

    The Minnesota firm that became the world's largest white pine lumber company overnight

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    Fort Ridgely

    A US military base in Nicollet County that operated between 1853 and 1867

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    Ȟaȟá Wakpádaŋ (Bassett Creek)

    A waterway that flows through nine Minnesota cities

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    Stewart, Jacob Henry (1829–1884)

    A doctor, mayor, congressman, and Civil War veteran

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    This Day in Minnesota History (June 13)

    1820

    John H. Stevens is born in Brompton Falls, Quebec. A farmer, merchant, editor, and legislator, he built a house on the west bank of St. Anthony Falls in 1849.

    1838

    Captain Frederick Marryat, author of numerous sea tales, most memorably "Mr. Midshipman Easy," visits Fort Snelling while on a trip to investigate American democracy. The next year he publishes Diary in America, which contains several chapters on his Minnesota experiences.

    1886

    A four-mile logjam closes the St. Croix River at Taylors Falls. The jam is so spectacular that excursion trains travel from Duluth to see it.

    1968

    A tornado kills nine people in Tracy (Lyon County).

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