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Barn Bluff has stood over thousands of years of history in the Red Wing area
A public park since 1910, the ancient bluff serves as an impressive landmark.
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A public park since 1910, the ancient bluff serves as an impressive landmark.
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Red Wing activist Susie Williamson Stageberg spent a lifetime fighting for unpopular political and social causes.
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The accident ranks among the most deadly on America’s inland waterways.
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In early summer 1863, William Colvill, now a full colonel, commanded the First Minnesota as it approached Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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After helping to boost production in the area, Parkin believed Goodhue County cheese makers should publicize their efforts.
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Though the Mdewakanton Dakota initially fought with the British in 1812, by 1814 the Red Wing group decided to cast their lot with the United States.
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Shoemaker was convicted of improper use of the mail after calling a Red Wing banker “Robber of Widows and Orphans” in a letter.
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Two major fires in the 1880s prompted Cannon Falls to establish a regular crew of firefighters.
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Divorce in Minnesota’s nineteenth century Norwegian-Lutheran community was a rarity. Legal separation between a leading pastor and his wife was unheard of.
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In the second half of the nineteenth century many farmers throughout the state grew wheat in preference to all other crops.