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Preservation group hopes to reignite conversations with DNR about fate of Manfred House

Preservation group hopes to reignite conversations with DNR about fate of Manfred House

The fate of the Frederick Manfred House in Blue Mounds State Park is still undecided. It’s been closed to the public for years after suffering extensive water damage. A preservation group wants it repaired and reopened, but its current owner, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, is proposing another plan which will only save the famed novelist’s writing room.
by Hannah Yang

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Canadian couple approaches the end of oxcart trek across Minnesota

Canadian couple approaches the end of oxcart trek across Minnesota

A Canadian couple retracing the 1800s oxcart trail from Winnipeg to St. Paul plan to end their journey this week despite a variety of challenges that slowed their progress.
by Dan Gunderson

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Tom Askjem on outhouse archaeology

Tom Askjem on outhouse archaeology

Tom Askjem is a citizen historian and archivist who has made a career of digging bottles, dish fragments and other forgotten relics of the past in outhouse pits.
by Cathy Wurzer and Ellen Finn

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Split Rock Lighthouse historic site back open after lightning strike knocked out utilities

Split Rock Lighthouse historic site back open after lightning strike knocked out utilities

Split Rock Lighthouse historic site on the North Shore is back open, after a lightning bolt struck the grounds, raced through the historic site’s electrical system and knocked out water, power and a variety of other functions on Monday.
by Tim Nelson

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U.S. identifies Native American boarding schools, burial sites

U.S. identifies Native American boarding schools, burial sites

A new federal study shows the U.S. government supported more than 400 Native American boarding schools aimed at assimilating Native children. The Interior Department's findings released Wednesday expanded the number of schools known to have operated during a 150-year period.
by The Associated Press

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77 years after his death in WWII, a Minn. soldier to be buried in Washington

77 years after his death in WWII, a Minn. soldier to be buried in Washington

More than three-quarters of a century after a young soldier from Eveleth, Minn. was killed during a bombing mission over Berlin during World War II, he will finally be buried on May 5, 2022, in Washington's Arlington National Cemetery. Modern science — and family perseverance — helped lead to the identification of the remains.
by Dan Kraker

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In Faribault, one last stand for a battered pre-Civil War house

In Faribault, one last stand for a battered pre-Civil War house

Gutted on the inside and pressed by encroaching development, time is running out for a southern Minnesota home that may date back to 1855. Rice County officials are making one more attempt to find someone willing to move it.
by Tim Nelson and Andrew Krueger

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