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Ȟaȟá Wakpádaŋ (Bassett Creek)

A waterway that flows through nine Minnesota cities

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Creek with bright green foliage on either side and a blue sky with clouds above.

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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A field showing grass and trees in different shades of green. Three orange butterflies alight on stalks of flowers in the foreground.

Strutwear Knitting Company Strike

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

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Strutwear Knitting Company strike

Hungry Mind (bookstore)

A tiny St. Paul bookshop that grew into a regional favorite with a national reach

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Hungry Mind interior

Bohemian Flats

A resilient immigrant community in Minneapolis that outlasted floods and disease

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Jun Fujita Cabin, Rainy Lake

The North Woods hideaway of an internationally renowned photographer

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Raymond, Leona Evelyn (1908–1998)

A sculptor who got her start in the WPA Federal Art Project

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Evelyn Raymond, 1959

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Landscape at sunset with foundation ruins in the foreground and a building and upright pillar in the background.

Fort Ridgely

Creator: Karl Nycklemoe
First Published: January 13, 2026
Fort Ridgely was a US military fort that operated between 1853 and 1867. It was located near the confluence of the Minnesota River and Fort Ridgely Creek, which was inside a Dakota ...
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1850–1877 (Civil War and Reconstruction)
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A one-and-a-half-story bungalgow with two two columns supporting a front porch. The house and its columns are painted white.

Arthur and Edith Lee House, Minneapolis

Creator: Eric Hankin-Redmon
First Published: December 18, 2025
In 1931, an unassuming house at 4600 Columbus Avenue South in Minneapolis was the site of racial violence directed at the Lees, an African American family who had recently purchased the ...
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1920–1945 (Great Depression and World War II)
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This Day in Minnesota History (January 20)

1896

On a theatrical tour, Calamity Jane (Martha Cannary Burk) appears at the Palace Museum in Minneapolis, dressed in the male attire of buckskin jacket and trousers and giving "the people of the eastern cities an opportunity of seeing the Woman Scout who was made so famous through her daring career in the West and Black Hill countries."

1961

A fire destroys the Crosby family home, which had been built at the foot of Montreal Street in St. Paul and is now the site of Crosby Farm Park.

1969

President Lyndon B. Johnson bestows the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor awarded by the United States, on civil rights activist Roy Wilkins. Wilkins was born in Mississippi but spent most of his life in St. Paul. In 1923 he graduated from the University of Minnesota, where he was the Minnesota Daily's first black reporter and editor. He served as executive director of the NAACP from 1955 to 1977. A postage stamp honoring him was issued in 2001.

1981

Lowell Bruce Laingen, who grew up in Odin, Minnesota, is one of fifty-two hostages released from the American Embassy in Tehran after being held by Islamic militants for 444 days during the Iran Hostage Crisis. Laingen was chargé d'affaires at the embassy.

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