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Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset District of San Francisco prior to 2010. The site serves more than 20 billion [17] page views per month, putting it in 72nd place overall among websites worldwide and 11th place overall among websites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 28, 2016), with more than 49.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com ...
Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary: Theodore Wirth Park: Minneapolis: Carleton College Cowling Arboretum: Carleton College: Northfield: Como Park Zoo and Conservatory: Saint Paul: Leif Erickson Park & Rose Garden: Duluth: The Arboretum at Gustavus Adolphus College: Gustavus Adolphus College: St. Peter: Lyndale Park Gardens ...
Northrup, King and Co. struggled for several years but had success by 1900. Its mail-order business peaked in 1909, and the company began to send salesmen to retailers across the state. The company continued selling seeds for garden use but also began to sell field seed for farming.
Minneapolis-Moline pioneered the concept of the closed-cab farm tractor in 1938 by developing the UDLX Comfortractor (also known as the Model U Deluxe). [4] The UDLX had flowing enclosing bodywork and a well appointed all-weather cabin, which contained a passenger seat, the idea being that the farmer and his wife would ride in comfort. [ 5 ]
Eloise Butler (1851–1933) was an American botanist, gardener and teacher. She was known for her role in founding the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary, [1] the oldest public wildflower garden in the United States, located in Theodore Wirth Park, Minneapolis. [2]
The entire area south of downtown is widely called South Minneapolis. The westerly portion surrounding the city's Chain of Lakes is loosely labeled Southwest Minneapolis , bounded on the east by I-35W and on the north by 36th St W, which extends west from Bde Maka Ska to the city limits.
Ford Tractor Company was a Minneapolis-based company active from 1916 to 1917, that built tractors to facilitate "horseless farming". History
A Minneapolis businessman and showman named Robert "Fish" Jones first bought a property near the edge of downtown Minneapolis in 1886. [2] He converted the 3-acre (12,000 m 2) property into a zoo for the animals which he had collected since his arrival in Minneapolis in 1876. [3] These included lions, jaguars, leopards, bears, cattle and a ...