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Minnesota Historical Society
The Minnesota Historical Society preserves Minnesota's past, shares our state's stories and connects people with history in meaningful ways, for today and for tomorrow. Because history matters!
Today in Minnesota History
Jeffers Petroglyphs
Jeffers Petroglyphs is home to about 5,000 sacred rock carvings, also called petroglyphs, made by the ancestors of today’s Native Americans.
Kensington Runestone
The debate over the authenticity of the Kensington Runestone has waged on for 100 years. There's still no definitive conclusion on this rock, which farmer Olaf Ohman unearthed on his western Minnesota farm back in 1898. Amateur sleuths have poured thousands of dollars of their own money into gathering evidence the stone is for real and academics have spent decades trying to prove it's a fake. The one thing clear about this debate is that it's deeply rooted in faith, culture, and community.
Fort Snelling
Learn stories of the military fort and its surrounding area, home to a wide history that includes Native peoples, trade, soldiers and veterans, enslaved people, immigrants, and the changing landscape.
Minnesota Mining History
History of the Mayo Clinic
Minnesota's Historic Shipwrecks
1895 Minnesota Map
Ojibwe History
Minnesota Indian Tribes, Reservations, Treaties
Minnesota Climatology
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