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‘The Paradise of Minnesota’: The history of Whitewater State Park
The park’s official creation dates from 1919, though no land was purchased until 1921. By 1926, despite few roads and minimal park facilities, 40,000 visitors came.
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Opioids trial, 1952: The downfall of Hennepin County Coroner Russell Heim
Federal drug agents had become curious about the unusual number of prescriptions for morphine and other narcotics that Heim issued from his 12 West Lake Street office.
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When Gov. Orville Freeman declared martial law in Albert Lea during a packing plant strike, he didn’t just target strikers
Freeman also ordered the plant closed.
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Hennepin County officials, bribes and 74 barrels of hidden whiskey: the Winnipeg Liquor Conspiracy
The Hennepin County sheriff provided guards to the smugglers, while the Hennepin County attorney was on hand to head off any prosecution.
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Church of St. Columba: ‘A high point of modern church architecture in the Twin Cities’
The church was designed by Chicago architect Francis Barry Byrne.
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All about chemistry: The remarkable career of the University of Minnesota’s Izaak Kolthoff
Kolthoff was a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Minnesota from 1927 to 1962.
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A disappearing ecosystem: Minnesota’s oak savannas
Oak savannas — open grassland studded by tall, spreading oak trees — once covered 10 percent of Minnesota.
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Lawyer, civil rights campaigner and diplomat: the life of William T. Francis
In July 1927, sixteen years after he first tried for a diplomatic appointment, W. T. Francis was named U.S. Minister and Consul to Liberia.
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Remembering Minnesota’s Freedom Riders
The Minnesota Freedom Riders were part of a second, expanded stage of the original Freedom Rides.
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Duluth’s Glensheen estate is one of the best-preserved mansions of its kind in Minnesota
The house is famous for its beauty inside and out — and as the site of one of Minnesota’s most notorious murders.
