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Red Wing was the world's largest primary market for wheat in the early 1870s, with a warehouse capacity of over 1,000,000 US bushels (35,000,000 L; 8,000,000 US dry gal; 7,800,000 imp gal) in 1873. As a result of the city's wealth, and with a need to house businesspeople and tourists visiting the city, eleven prominent businessmen invested in ...
[citation needed] In 1873, Red Wing led the country in wheat sold by farmers. [10] The warehouses in the port of Red Wing could store and export more than a million bushels. [10] Once the railroads connected southern Minnesota with Minneapolis and Saint Anthony, where the largest flour mills were built, the port at Red Wing lost prominence. [10]
Angell, Madeline (1977) Red Wing, Minnesota: Saga of a River Town (Minneapolis, MN: Dillon Press) Marton, Renee (2014) Rice: A Global History (Reaktion Books) ISBN 9781780234120; Dupont, Mary (2019) "Mrs. Ambassador: The Life and Politics of Eugenie Anderson" (St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press). ISBN 9781681341279
1875 house of Theodore B. Sheldon (1820–1900), an early settler of Red Wing who arrived in 1856 and became one of the city's leading citizens, active in commerce, transportation, and civics. [67] Also a contributing property to the Red Wing Residential Historic District .
Hamline University, Minnesota's first college of higher learning, was started in Red Wing in 1854. It closed during the Civil War, and reopened in 1869 in Saint Paul. The county was a leading producer of wheat during the mid-19th century, and for several years the county boasted the highest wheat production in the country.
Sheldon was involved with numerous other industries in Red Wing, including grain, banks, railroads, stoneware, and gas and power. Most prominently, he and McIntire established Red Wing's First National Bank in 1865. Sheldon also unified the Bluff and Diamond flour mills to establish Red Wing Mills, which have been described as the pride of Red ...
In 1901, the modern process of making puffed grains was invented by Dr. Alexander P. Anderson in Red Wing, Minnesota. He was doing an experiment dealing with the effect of heat and pressure on corn starch granules where he put them in six glass tubes, sealed them, and put them in an oven until they changed color. When Dr. Anderson took them out ...
The Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) is a commodities and futures exchange of grain products. It was formed in 1881 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States as a regional cash marketplace to promote fair trade and to prevent trade abuses in wheat, oats and corn.