Around midnight on July 10, 1970, four teams of two or three people each broke into Selective Service offices in Little Falls, Alexandria, Winona, and Wabasha, intending to destroy as many military draft files as possible.
The Kensington Runestone has provoked a host of scholarly and popular articles and books. The Minnesota Historical Society library carries more than forty titles on the subject.
By the late 1950s, populations of House districts ranged from 7,290 residents to 107,246, and Senate districts from 16,878 to 153,455.
By mid-1956, John’s Bar had lost its license, and 110 men and women had been convicted of violating the Mann Act.
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.
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.
Freeman also ordered the plant closed.
The Hennepin County sheriff provided guards to the smugglers, while the Hennepin County attorney was on hand to head off any prosecution.
The church was designed by Chicago architect Francis Barry Byrne.
Kolthoff was a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Minnesota from 1927 to 1962.
Oak savannas — open grassland studded by tall, spreading oak trees — once covered 10 percent of Minnesota.
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.
The Minnesota Freedom Riders were part of a second, expanded stage of the original Freedom Rides.
The house is famous for its beauty inside and out — and as the site of one of Minnesota’s most notorious murders.
Quarried in Renville County, Morton gneiss is one of the oldest stones on the planet: about 3.5 billion years old.
Among successful Minnesota politicians there have been orators, Easterners, professorial types and Jews. Only Wellstone was all of these.
On September 27, 1839, Dakota boys found a body washed up under Dayton’s Bluff, near Carver’s Cave (Wakan Tipi).
The stone is characterized by its gray color, rough texture, and many fossils.
Along with mounds in Crow Wing, Itasca, and Beltrami Counties, they are some of the northernmost burial mounds on the Mississippi River.
The Cloquet and Moose Lake fires left over 450 dead, fifteen hundred square miles consumed, towns and villages burned flat.
