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Minnesota Historical Society - http://www.mnhs.org/
Dedicated to preserving and sharing Minnesota's history. |
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Minnesota's National Register Properties - http://nrhp.mnhs.org/
Profiles of some properties in the state that are on the National Register of Historic Places, grouped by theme. FAQ, searchable database with basic details on thousands of Minnesota structures and districts listed on the National Register. |
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Preservation Alliance of Minnesota - http://www.mnpreservation.org/
Provides educational and technical assistance to various history-oriented groups committed to preserving historic sites, buildings, and other resources. |
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Forests, Fields, and the Falls: Connecting Minnesota - http://discovery.mnhs.org/ConnectingMN/
The stories of four real people illustrate the interaction of lumbering, sawmilling, flour milling, and farming in the late nineteenth century. |
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Minnesota - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may11.html
Concentrates on 18th- and 19th-century Minnesota history, but also refers to earlier and later periods. Historical essay, hand-colored photographs and links. Today in History's entry for May 11. At the Library of Congress. |
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Minnesota Historical Societies - http://www.daddezio.com/society/hill/SH-MN-NDX.html
Locate address information (including web site links) to historical societies in each county within the state of Minnesota. |
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Minnesota's Historic Shipwrecks - http://www.mnhs.org/places/nationalregister/shipwrecks/index.html
About the history of water travel and shipping on Lake Superior and the state's inland waters, including shipwrecks and their conservation. |
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Dahcotah, or, Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling - http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?doc=35037
Mary Eastman's seminal work on the Dakota people, originally published in 1849. Searchable page images. Each page also in PDF for download. |
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Minnesota Local History and Genealogy Research Guide - http://home.att.net/~Local_History/Minnesota.htm
Links to search by category, county or era. In the American Local History Network as the state site for Minnesota. |
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Minnesota's Red Rock and Other Sacred Boulders - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5645/saaredrock.html
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. |