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Minnesota's northerly location in the United States has resulted in its official designation as L'Étoile du Nord ("Star of the North"). There are nineteen official symbols of the US state of Minnesota, as designated by the Minnesota Legislature. [1] The first named symbol is the state's motto, L'Étoile du Nord – French for "Star of the North".
An eight-pointed gold star is in the sky blue above the first and second peaks in the white lines; the star symbolizes Duluth as the Zenith City of the North [5] [6] (referring to one of Duluth's nicknames) [7] and the North Star, [8] and it reflects the Native American and voyageur history of the area. [9]
The North Star was a passenger train operated by Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) between Duluth, Minnesota and Saint Paul, Minnesota. It originally operated from Chicago, Illinois via St. Paul to Superior, Wisconsin and Duluth, but was soon cut back to a Saint Paul–Duluth train. The service relied in part on funding from ...
Duluth fielded a National Football League team called the Kelleys (officially the Kelley Duluths after the Kelley-Duluth Hardware Store) from 1923 to 1925 and the Eskimos (officially [131] Ernie Nevers' Eskimos after the early NFL great, their star player) from 1926 to 1927.
In 2011, renovations to the depot were planned to serve the Northern Lights Express Higher-speed rail service from Minneapolis to Duluth. This 155-mile (249 km) project is proposed to roughly follow the route of Amtrak's former North Star and is expected to include stops in Coon Rapids, Isanti, Cambridge, and Hinckley in Minnesota and in ...
The Northern Lights Express (NLX) project is a planned higher-speed rail service that would run 155 miles (249 km) between Minneapolis and Duluth primarily in the U.S. state of Minnesota. A portion of the proposed line would run through neighboring Wisconsin to serve Duluth's " Twin Port " of Superior .
Minnesota (/ ˌ m ɪ n ə ˈ s oʊ t ə / ⓘ MIN-ə-SOH-tə) is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the west.
The Oliver G. Traphagen House, also known as Redstone, is a historic residential building in Duluth, Minnesota, United States.Built in 1892 as a duplex, it was designed and inhabited by architect Oliver G. Traphagen (1854–1932). [2]