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    1853

    Minnesota's first real-estate advertisement for a "land salesman" appears in the Minnesota Pioneer.

    1888

    Alexander McDougall launches the first whaleback freighter onto Lake Superior.

    1992

    A train derailment in Superior, Wisconsin, sends a tanker car of benzene into the Nemadji River. The resulting cloud of possibly toxic smoke leads to the evacuation of 50,000 residents of Superior and Duluth.