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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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A four-story sawmill with a green roof, red walls, and pairs of windows across the horizontal access. People are in the foreground.

Fort Ridgely

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

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View of Fort Ridgey with stone foundation ruins in the foreground, a one-story building with two doors and six windows in the middleground next to a stone pillar, and a grey sky in the background.

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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Peterson Bluebird Nest Box

A conservation success story that started in Brooklyn Center

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Strutwear Knitting Company Strike

The longest of three major labor disputes in Minneapolis between 1935 and 1936

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Bohemian Flats

A resilient immigrant community in Minneapolis that outlasted floods and disease

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Paul Bunyan Canoe Derby

Creator: Frank Bures
First Published: March 03, 2026
Conceived as a way to launch the inaugural Aquatennial Celebration, the Paul Bunyan Canoe Derby was a 450-mile race that took place on the Mississippi River between 1940 and 1960. Teams of ...
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Citizens Alliance, Minneapolis

Creator: Paul Nelson
First Published: February 18, 2026
From its founding in 1903 until the mid-1930s, the Citizens Alliance of Minneapolis fought organized labor with vigor, determination, imagination, and money. It scored victory after ...
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This Day in Minnesota History (March 07)

1882

The Minnesota State Butter and Cheese Association is organized in Rochester. The group promotes dairy farming in the state and counts among its successes the "grand sweepstakes" award for the best butter at the 1885 World Industrial and Centennial Exposition in New Orleans.

1913

Early this morning, a plainclothes policeman is beaten and thrown out of a room at the St. Paul Hotel, where members of the state legislature and their friends are said to be playing cards. The officer returns with six more plainclothes men and "exciting scenes" follow, including the flight through a window into another room by a man who had hit the first policeman with his fist. Although at least one man is told to appear later in court, the entire matter is dropped while the legislators complain of a "frame-up" by the police to make trouble for members in disfavor with the city administration.

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