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Forests, Fields, and the Falls: Connecting Minnesota
A story of hard work and the intertwining of four industries: lumbering, sawmilling, flour milling and farming. Join Joseph DeLaittre in the lumber camps of Aitkin, take a walk through the sawmills of 1900s Minneapolis with young Melvin Frank, delve into the life of Mary Carpenter on her Marshall farm of the 1870s and savor the wonders of St. Anthony Falls and its flour mills via the words of journalist E.V. Smalley.
http://discovery.mnhs.org/ConnectingMN
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Minnesota Aviation History & Education Center
Will tell the dramatic Minnesota aviation story through interpretation of its fascinating collections and of the role of Minnesota pioneers in molding the technological progress from the earliest days into the future.
http://www1.minn.net/~farls/museum.html
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Minnesota Historical Societies
Locate address information (including web site links) to historical societies in each county within the state of Minnesota.
http://www.daddezio.com/society/hill/SH-MN-NDX.html
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Minnesota Statehood
Concentrates on 18th- and 19th-century Minnesota history, but also refers to earlier and later periods. Historical essay, hand-colored photographs and lots of links. Today in History's entry for May 11. At the Library of Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may11.html
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Minnesota's Historic Shipwrecks
About the history of water travel and shipping on Lake Superior and the state's inland waters, including shipwrecks and their conservation.
http://www.mnhs.org/places/nationalregister/shipwrecks/index.html
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Minnesota's Red Rock and Other Sacred Boulders
Ethnohistorical paper about Red Rock in what is now Newport. Also mentions other places sacred to the Dakota people in Browns Valley, St. Anthony Falls (Minneapolis), and Pipestone.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5645/saaredrock.html
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Old Man River
Lore of the Upper Mississippi River, including links to photos taken by Henry Bosse in the late 19th Century.
http://www.oldmanriver.com
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Preservation Alliance of Minnesota
Provides educational and technical assistance to various history-oriented groups committed to preserving historic sites, buildings, and other resources. Requires frames. Too wide for smaller monitors.
http://www.mnpreservation.org/
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The Dakota Society of Minnesota
A study and social group concerned with the Dakota people and their culture, in both historical and present-day contexts.
http://www.visi.com/~vanmulken/welcome.htm
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