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Hartbeespoort, informally known as "Harties", is a small resort town in the North West Province of South Africa, situated on slopes of the Magaliesberg mountain and ...
Well-preserved mound site with 111 visible and subsurface mounds built 500 BCE–1853 CE; significant in Mdewakanton tradition and culture and in Minnesota archaeology. Partly a contributing property to the Shakopee Historic District .
In its final career it was used for many years in winter as sales office for the University of Minnesota forestry students' Christmas tree sales project. The schoolhouse now on the museum site was built near Milan, Minnesota, around the same as the original schoolhouse, and represents the typical pioneer one-room schoolhouse. It was bought in ...
The Minnesota Valley Canning Company sold cream style corn and then peas before becoming Green Giant in 1950. [155] Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) was founded in 1902 in Two Harbors, Minnesota, and was later moved to Duluth, Saint Paul, and then Maplewood. The founders of 3M got their start by manufacturing sandpaper.
The territorial era of Minnesota lasted from the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to Minnesota's achieving statehood in 1858. The Minnesota Territory itself was formed only in 1849 but the area had a rich history well before this. Though there was a long history of European presence in the area before 19th century, it was during the 19th century that ...
Brits was founded in 1924 on the farm Roode Kopjes (Red Hills) and was named after the owner, Johannes Nicolaas Brits. The armistice treaty for the Transvaal civil war was signed in 1864 beneath a karee tree just to the south of Brits.
Sam Nordquist, a transgender man, was found dead in Feburary. 7 people have been indicted in his death, and new documents show the torture he faced.
Ruins of the 1861 house of influential Minnesota settler Joseph R. Brown (1805–1870). Also associated with native–white relations, white settlement and reservation establishment on the upper Minnesota River, and the outbreak of the Dakota War of 1862. [112] Now the Joseph R. Brown State Wayside. [113] 3: Heins Block: Heins Block: August 8, 2001