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Minnesota - The Bread And Butter State (From The United States Series)

Statehood:

Admitted to the Union on May 11, 1858 as the thirty-second State, Minnesota is found in the Upper Midwest region of the Country along Lake Superior, and is bordered by North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Wisconsin.

Name:

With the Dakota Indian name "Mnisota, " meaning "sky-tinted water, " Minnesota possesses western prairies, the North Woods Region, the Laurentian Mixed Forest Province, the Transition Zone between true boreal forests and temperate hardwood forests, the Lake of the Woods, the Northwest Angle, the Driftless Area, the rolling hills of Buffalo Ridge, and about ten and a half million acres of wetlands.

Native Americans:

Native American Indian tribes that resided in Minnesota included the Arapaho, the Cheyenne, the Chippewa, the Fox, the Sac, the Iowa, the Missouri, the Omaha, the Ottowa, the Ponca, the Sauk, the Wyandot, the Winnebago, the Ho-Chunk, the Ojibwa, the Cree, the Monsoni, the Assiniboine, the Dakota, the Sioux, the Mdewakanton, the Hopewell, the Kaposia, the Lakota, and the Anishinabe,

History:

Mdewakanton Indians, of the Dakota Sioux Nation, were the original inhabitants s of the land that became the State of Minnesota until 1680 when the first French explorers arrived.

The second northernmost State was taken from the Iowa Territory, part of the Wisconsin Territory, and the Arrowhead Region, that contained the three cities of Saint Anthony, Stillwater, and Saint Paul, and was carved out of the eastern portion of the Minnesota Territory that existed from March 3, 1849 to May 11, 1858.

Minnesota shares Lake Superior with Wisconsin and Michigan, contains some of the oldest rocks found on the Earth, has the Country's second largest population of timber wolves, and its Lake Itasca is the headwaters of the Mississippi River.

The portion of Minnesota east of the Mississippi River became US property after the American Revolutionary War and the September 3, 1783 Second Treaty of Paris was signed. The western part of the State was gained by the Louisiana Purchase.

Minnesota was built on logging, farming, transportation, flour mills, iron ore mining in the Vermilion Range, the Mesabi Range, and the Cuyuna Range, railroading, shipping, manufacturing, feedlots, agricultural machinery, technology, healthcare, ethanol, wind power, fur trading, sweet corn, sugar beets, green peas, turkey farming, pulpwood processing, paper production, taconite mining, and. technology.

Minnesota is the home of the Country's first indoor shopping mall, Edina's Southdale Central, and the Nation's largest shopping mall, Bloomington's Mall of America.

Grand Portage National Monument:

Found on the north side of Lake Superior, and part of the trade route of the French Canadian Voyageurs that settled the area, the Grand Portage National Monument's eight and a half mile long footpath over waterfalls and rapids on the Pigeon River, cuts through Sawtooth Mountain, passes Fort Charlotte, and crosses the Height of Land Portage on the boundary waters between the United States and Canada, as well as the Rove Animikie Rock Formation, the Rainy River Watershed, the Northern Continental Divide that separates the Atlantic Ocean Watershed from the Hudson Bay Watershed, providing a passageway between the drainage basins of the Great Lakes, the Artic Ocean, the Saint Lawrence River, and the Atlantic Ocean, and preserves the fur trade and Ojibwa Indian heritage of Minnsota.

Mississippi National River and Recreation Area:

Featuring the Science Museum of Minnesota, the St. Anthony Falls Historic District, the Guthrie Theater, the Mill City Historical Society Museum, the Mill Ruins Park that interprets the flour milling history of Minneapolis, the 1820 Fort Snelling Military Installation, the Fort Snelling State Park, the 1883 Stone Arch Railroad Bridge across the Mississippi River, Minnehaha Falls, with a Dakota Indian name meaning "Laughing Water, " several trails throughout the Minneapolis metropolitan area, and flowing along a seventy-two mile long corridor from Dayton to Hastings, the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area includes many nationally significant recreational, historical, scenic, cultural, and scientific resources and is the only National Park exclusively dedicated to protecting the Mississippi River.

North Country National Scenic Trail:

Generally limited to foot traffic, bicycles, and horseback riders, the longest of the eleven National Scenic Trails, stretching about 4600 miles long from Crown Point, New York to Lake Sakakawea, North Dakota, the North Country National Scenic Trail passes through the Superior National Forest, the Chippewa National Forest, and the Tamarack National Wildlife Refuge in Minnesota.

Pipestone National Monument:

Sacred to the Lakota, Dakota, Sioux, and other Native American Indian tribes because it produced the catlinite their ceremonial pipes were made from, and acquired by the United States in 1893, the Pipestone National Monument contains the Red Pipestone Quarries, a State of Minnesota Historic Site, the Upper Midwest Indian Cultural Center, self-guided tours, tallgrass prairies, bison in the nearby Blue Mounds State Park, and petroglyph exhibits.

Voyageurs National Park:

With a large portion of the property only accessible by boat, and found on the Canadian Shield of the North American Craton, extending from the Great Lakes to the Artic Ocean, near International Falls in the northern part of the State, Voyageurs National Park contains the Kabetogama Peninsula, Lake Namakan, Rainy Lake, Sand Point Lake, Lake Kabetogama, Anderson Bay, Surveyors Island, Camp Marston, the Harry Oveson Commercial Fishing Camp, the Ellsworth Rock Gardens, the Moose River Ojibwa Indian village, easy access to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, and preserves the 1893 Rainy Lake Gold Rush Site, as well as the logging and fur trades northern Minnesota was built on.

Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway:

Burial mounds, logging camps, pine plantations, quarries, rock art, wild rice processing areas, and Prehistoric village sites found along the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway indicate it was the previous home of Ojibwa and Dakota Native American Indians, and that the route, from the Mississippi River to Lake Superior, supported a preferred fur trade.

National Historic Landmarks:

Preserving the industrial, logging. mining, military, political, and Native American Indian heritages of the State Minnesota is the home of twenty-three National Historic Landmarks including the 1874 Washburn "A" Mill, known as the Mill City Museum, the one-time largest flour mill in the world, the 1894 to 1930 Andrew John Volstead House in Granite Falls, the Author of the 1919 National Prohibition Enforcement Act, the Thorstein Veblen Farmstead in Nerstrand, regarded as one of America's most creative thinkers, the St. Croix Recreational Demonstration Area in Hinckley, the Soudan Iron Mine in Tower, Minnesota's deepest, oldest, and richest iron mine, with 27 mined levels, and the home of the Soudan Underground Laboratory, the Ole Edvart Ralvaag House in Northfield, the Writer of the famous Giants In The Earth, Pedar Victorious, and Their Father's God trilogy, known as the most penetrating assessment of what pioneers experienced in order to survive in early Middle America, the St. Croix Boom Site in Stillwater, on the St. Croix River, the 1935 Civilian Conservation Corps Camp in the Chippewa National Forest, part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Program, the Pillsbury "A" Mill, on the Saint Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, that operated two of the most powerful waterwheels ever built, the 1908 National Farmers Bank of Owatonna, the first of famed Architect Louis Sullivan's "jewel boxes, " the 1899 to 1900-built Peavey-Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator in Saint Louis Park, the first circular concrete grain elevator in the United States, the 1890 Mountain Iron Mine that proved the Mesubi Range held the largest deposit of iron ore in the world, the Mayo Clinic's Plummer Building, once the tallest building in Rochester, the Charles A. Lindbergh House and Park in Little Falls, the boyhood home of the famous Aviator, the Frank B. Kellogg House in Saint Paul, who won the Nobel Peace Prize and turned foreign policy of the Country away from interventionism, the Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home in Sauk Centre, the Oliver B. Kelly Homestead in Elk River, a Founder of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, the Kathio Historic District in Vineland that houses Sioux and Ojibwa Indian mound sites believed to be from 3000BC to 1750AD, and nineteen archaeological sites, one of Minnesota's most significant collections, the Christ Church Lutheran in Minneapolis, designed by the Saarinen father and son architectural team, the James J. Hill House in Saint Paul, Minnesota's largest residence with more than 36, 000 square feet, the Francis Scott Fitzgerald House in Saint Paul, the Spokesman for the Jazz Age, the Hull-Rust-Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine in Hibbing, the largest open pit iron mine in the world, and the producer of one-fourth of all the iron ore mined in the United States during World War One and World War Two, and Fort Snelling on the Minnesota and Mississippi River confluence in Minneapolis, part of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area.

Chippewa National Forest:

Created in 1908 in north central Minnesota the Chippewa National Forest covers more than one and a half million acres, contains more than 1300 lakes and 400, 000 acres of wetlands, with about three quarters of the first National Forest in the eastern United States laying in the Leech Lake Indian Reservation. The Lost Forty, an area erroneously mapped in 1882 as part of Coddington Lake, was never logged and is therefore the old growth home of several trees that are at least 350 years old.

Superior National Forest:

The Superior National Forest contains four million acres, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, more than 2000 lakes, 2250 miles of streams, the Sawtooth Mountains, the Misquah Hills, Eagle Mountain, the State's highest elevation point, the Laurentian Divide, dramatic cliffs, and is known for its Northern boreal forest ecosystem in the Arrowhead Region of northeastern Minnesota, between Lake Superior and the United States-Canadian border, an historic fur trading thoroughfare in the exploration days of British North America.

State Parks:

Minnesota contains sixty-six State Parks, located within fifty miles of every citizen of the State, including the Ithaca State Park north of Park Rapids, which in 1881 became Minnesota's first State Park, was determined to be the source of the Mississippi River in 1832, was named a National Natural Landmark in 1965, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, the Afton State Park on the St. Croix River in Washington County, the Bear Head Lake State Park on the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the Banning State Park on the Kettle River near Sandstone, the Beaver Creek Valley State Park near Caledonia in southeastern Minnesota that showcases the Paleozoic Plateau's Driftless Area's deep river valleys, the Buffalo River State Park, near Moorhead, containing one of the largest of Minnesota's state prairie preserves, the Camden State Park, on the Redwood River near Marshall, that has thirteen structures on the National Register of Historic Places, the Cascade River State Park, near the northeastern tip of Minnesota on Lake Superior, along the Superior and North Shore State Hiking Trails, the Charles A. Lindbergh State Park, on Little Falls, that houses the boyhood home of the famous Aviator, the Forestville Mystery Cave State Park, in the Driftless Area, with the longest cave open to the public in the State, the Fort Snelling State Park, on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, containing the historic 1819 Fort Snelling on the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, the Frontenac State Park, southeast of Red Wing, with more than 260 species of birds living there, the Glendalough State Park, near Battle Lake, where Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon were guests of the resort once found there, the Grand Fortage State Park, on the US-Canadian border, with a 120-foot tall waterfall, the tallest in the State, the Interstate Park, on the Minnesota and Wisconsin border, the first US park to span two States, the John A. Latsch State Park, northwest of Winona, containing the Faith, Hope, and Charity steep river bluffs, the Lake Louise State Park, near LeRoy north of the Iowa border, Minnesota's oldest continuous recreation area, the Mille Lacs Kathio State Park with nineteen archaeological sites, the Myre-Big Island State Park, outside Albert Lea, with one of the largest collections of Native American artifacts in the State, the Saint Croix State Park, Minnesota's largest State Park, and one of the best examples of Recreational Demonstration Area Planning of the Great Depression, the Soudan Underground Mine State Park, on the south shore of Lake Vermilion, with Minnesota's deepest, oldest, and richest iron mine, and more.

State Forests:

Minnesota houses fifty-nine State Forests including the Badoura State Forest south of Akeley with access to the Crow Wing Chain Wildlife Management Area and the Badoura State Forest Nursery, the Battleguard State Forest west of Boy River Bay with world class fishing opportunities in Leech Lake, the Bear island State Forest near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the Beltrami Island State Forest containing six Scientific and Natural Areas, and Minnesota's second largest State Forest, the Big Fork State Forest, the home of Minnesota's State Tree, the Red Pine, the Birch Lake State Forest between Little Birch and Birch Lake in the Transition Zone of the forested northeast part of the State and the prairie region of the southwest, the Blackduck State Forest northwest of the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota, the Bowstring State Forest, in the middle of the Chippewa National Forest, containing the Soo Line All Terrain Vehicle Trail, the Buena Vista State Forest between Nebish and Bemidji, with a wellknown snowmobile trail, the Burntside State Forest, the home of the 10, 000 acre Burntside Lake, with one of the largest populations of the Minnesota State Bird, the Loon, the Chengwatana State Forest east of Pine City, the Cloquet Valley State Forest north of Duluth, the Crow Wing State Forest northeast of Brainerd, containing the Pelican Beach Day-Use Area, the Daughters of the American Revolution State Forest east of the Banning State Park, the Emily State Forest, Minnesota's smallest State Forest, the Finland State Forest in south-central Lake County, the Fond du Lac State Forest that was severely burned by the Great Colquet Fire of 1918, the Foot Hills State Forest near Minneapolis and Saint Cloud, a popular Off Highway Vehicles recreation spot, the General Christopher Columbus Andrews State Forest that produces more than five million tree seedlings every year, the George Washington State Forest north of Nashwauk that is full of wetlands, the Golden Anniversary State Forest southeast of Grand Rapids, a popular family recreational area, the Grand Portage State Forest northeast of Grand Marais, with an entrance to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the Hill River State Forest south of Grand Rapids, with the Rabey Line ATV Trail, the Huntersville State Forest southeast of Park Rapids with off-road motorcycle events, the Insula Lake State Forest in the Superior National Forest, the Kabetogama State Forest leading into the Voyageurs National Park, the Koochiching State Forest, with more than 567, 985 acres, one of Minnesota's largest State Forests, the Lake Isabella State Forest in the Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the Lake Jeanette State Forest, in the Superior National Forest, with glacial camping, the Lake of the Woods State Forest between the Pine Island and Beltrami Island State Forest, the Land O'Lakes State Forest west of Duluth with the Moose River ATV Trail, the Lost River State Forest bordering Manitoba, Canada, a popular birdwatching site for Great Grey Owls, the Lyons State Forest northwest of Staples with plentiful wildlife viewing opportunities, the Mississippi Headwaters State Forest, south of Wilton, that the Mississippi River flows through after leaving its source, the Itasca State Park, and containing ninety-fve ponds and lakes, the Nemadji State Forest along the Minnesota-Wisconsin border, with one hundred miles of OHM and ATV accessibilities, the Northwest Angle State Forest, the "chimney" at the Lake of the Woods, on top of the lower forty-eight contiguous United States, the Pat Bayle State Forest, in the Superior National Forest, on Eagle Mountain, Minnesota's highest elevation point, the Paul Bunyan State Forest, one of Minnesota's premiere State Forests, containing access to the Round River Drive ATV Trail, the Martineau OHM Trail, and the North Country National Scenic Trail, the Pillsbury State Forest with the Walter E. Stark Assembly Area and Horse Campground, the Pine Island State Forest, with more than 878, 040 acres, Minnesota's largest State Forest, the Red Lake State Forest between the Upper Red Lake and the Pine Island State Forest, the Remer State Forest in the Chippewa National Forest, the Richard J. Dorer Memorial Hardwood State Forest in southeastern Minnesota with the Great River Road bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, the Rum River State Forest south of the Mille Lacs Wilderness Management Area, west of Onamia, and north of the Four Brook Wilderness Management Area, the Sand Dunes State Forest, west of Zimmerman, with the Sand Dunes Horse Camp, the Savannah State Forest with eighty-six miles of snowmobile trails, the Smokey Bear State Forest along the Koochiching County and Canadian border, the Smoky Hills State Forest, east of Detroit Lakes, a popular shorebird viewing area, the mostly undeveloped Snake River State Forest, the Solana State Forest with many swampy areas, the St. Croix State Forest along the Minnesota-Wisconsin border, with access to the St. Croix State Canoe Route, a National Wild and Scenic River, the Sturgeon River State Forest, with second growth Northern forest and plentiful wildlife, the Two Inlets State Forest, north of Park Rapids, on rolling hilly lowlands, the Waukenabo State Forest near Palisade, with no developed trail system, the Wealthwood State Forest containing the Ripple Valley Wildlife Management Area, the Welsh Lake State Forest with world-class fishing in Leech Lake, the White Earth State Forest in Mahnomen, Clearwater, and Becker Counties, and the Whiteface River State Forest, in the eastern part of Minnesota, with the Little Whiteface Wildlife Management Area.

State Recreation Areas:

State Recreation Areas in Minnesota include the Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area, between Shakopee and Belle Plaine, that is inter-mixed with parts of the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge and the Minnesota Valley State Trail, the Red River State Recreation Area on the Greater Grand Forks Greenway, the Garden Island State Recreation Area, in the Land of the Woods, near the Northwest Angle of Minnesota, the State's northernmost part, and the former site of a large Native American Indian cultivated garden, the Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area, northeast of Brainerd, on part of the Cuyuna Iron Range, the last of Minnesota's three major iron ranges mined, the Big Bog State Recreation Area, north of Waskish, the largest peatland in the Lower United States, and the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, between Dayton and Ramsey to Hastings, chosen as one of twenty Parks to initiate the Let's Move Outside Campaign to introduce children to outdoor activities.

State Waysides:

The eight Minnesota State Waysides, generally a parking area with picnic tables and a trail, can be found mainly along the north shore of Lake Superior and include the Sam Brown State Wayside in Traverse County that honors the "Paul Revere of the West, " who, on April 19, 1866 rode 120 miles on horseback to warn people of an expected Dakota Sioux Indian uprising, the Kodonce River State Wayside in Cook County with access to the river's gorge by way of the Superior Hiking Trail, the Ray Berglund State Wayside in Cook County, the Joseph R. Brown State Wayside in Renville County with the ruins of a three-story mansion destroyed in the Dakota Indian War of 1862, the Flood Bay State Wayside in Lake County outside the Two Harbors beach, the Inspiration Peak State Wayside in Otter Tail County on the highest elevation point of the Leaf Hills Moraine in west central Minnesota, the Devils Track Falls State Wayside in Cook County with a nearly inaccessible Superior National Forest gorge, and the Caribou Falls State Wayside in Lake County with a waterfall on the Caribou River.

State Trails:

One of the best ways to see Minnesota is by exploring its many State Trails including the Central Lakes State Trail between Fergus Falls and Osakis that is historically significant because the 1362 Kensington Rune Stone, with more than two hundred medieval runes in its surface, was found southwest of Alexandria, suggesting Norsemen may have traveled in the area 130 years before Columbus discovered America, and for the Seven Sisters Prairie on Lake Christina, the Arrowhead State Trail south of International Falls that is used primarily for snowmobiling, the Casey Jones State Trail between Pipestone and the Lake Shetek State Park near Currie in southwestern Minnesota, named after the famous railroad engineer killed in a train wreck in 1900, and containing the Laura Ingalls Wilder site in Walnut Grove, the Pipestone National Monument, and wide open "heartland of America" landscape, the Blazing Star State Trail between Albert Lea and the Myre-Big Island State Park in Austin, the Root River State Trail from Fountain to Houston, with abundent wildlife, limestone bluffs overlooking the Root River Valley, and the protected home of rattlesnakes, a Minnesota State Threatened and Protected Species, the Harmony-Preston Valley portion of the Root River State Trail that is groomed for cross-country skiing, the Glacial Lakes State Trail between Willmar and the Stearn County Line in Central Minnesota, between the western tallgrass prairies and the eastern forests, the Gitchi-Gami State Trail from Two Harbors to Grand Marais on Lake Superior's northern shore that runs between five State Parks, the Cuyuna Lakes State Trail in the Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area, the Heartland State Trail, between Cass Lake and Park Rapids, one of the first Rail to Trail Projects in the United States, the North Shore State Trail from Duluth to Grand Marais in northeastern Minnesota behind the bluffs that overlook Lake Superior, the Sakatah Singing Hills State Trail from Mankato to Faribault, the Taconite State Trail from Grand Rapids to Lake Vermilion through birch and aspen forests and three State Parks, the Paul Bunyan State Trail from Bemidji to Brainerd with thirteen recorded Ojibwa and Dakota Native American Indian Prehistoric sites, the Willard Munger State Trail from Duluth to Hinckley in east central Minnesota along the railroad route that saved many lives in the historic Nineteenth Century Cloquet and Hinckley fires, the Shooting Star State Trail between LeRoy and Adams that is full of wildflowers, the Minnesota Valley State Trail from Shakopee to Belle Plaine along the Minnesota River, the Great River Ridge State Trail from Plainview to Eyota in southeastern Minnesota that passes through two State Parks and eight City Parks, the Goodhue Pioneer State Trail from Red Wing to Pine Island, the Gateway State Trail from St. Paul to Stillwater that is used for non-motorized transportation, the Douglas State Trail from Rochester to Pine Island through some of the richest agricultural land in Minnesota, and the Luce Line State Trail from Plymouth to Cosmos, a preserved strip of Minnesota countryside.

Lakes:

Minnesota contains approximately 11, 842 lakes that are larger than ten acres in size including Baltrami County's Red Lake, in the northern part of the State, that is divided by a peninsula into the Upper Red Lake and the Lower Red Lake, containing about 288, 800 acres, making it the second largest lake in the United States completely inside the Nation's borders, Lake Vermilion that contains 365 islands, 1200 miles of shoreline, and more than 40, 557 acres of water, one of the most scenic lakes in America, Mille Lac Lake, Minnesota's second largest lake that possesses more than 132, 516 acres, and is only about forty feet deep, Lake Winnibigoshish found in the Chippewa National Forest, with about ninety-five percent of its shoreline undeveloped and wellknown for big game fishing, Leech Lake in the heart of the Chippewa National Forest, the home of the highest number of pairs of Bald Eagles in the Continental United States, Portsmouth Mine Pit Lake near Crosby, at a depth of 450 feet, making it the deepest inland lake in Minnesota, Lake Saganaga, at 240 feet, the State's deepest natural lake, and Otter Tail Lake, Cass Lake, Mud Lake, Lake Kabetogama, and Lake Minnetonka listed among the largest lakes in the State.

Lake Superior Drainage Basin:

Minnesota's Rivers can be broken down according to their drainage basins and those of the Lake Superior Drainage Basin include the Pigeon River, the Swamp River, the Stump River, the Royal River, the Crocodile River, the Reservation River, the Flute Reed River, the Brule River, the Greenwood River, the Kadunce River, the Devil Track River, the Fall River, the Cascade River, the Poplar River, the Tait River, the Onion River, the Temperance River, the Kelso River, the Two Island River, the Caribou River, the Manitou River, the Baptism River, the Beaver River, the Split Rock River, the Gooseberry River, the Knife River, the Talmadge River, the St. Louis River, the Red River, the Colquet River, the Artichoke River, the Whiteface River, the Embarass River, the Partridge River, and more.

Lower Mississippi River Drainage Basin:

Rivers of the Lower Mississippi River Drainage Basin include the Mississippi River, the Little Sioux River, the Rock River, the Des Moines River, the Cedar River, the Shell Rock River, the Wapsipinicon River, the Upper Iowa River, the Little Iowa River, the Root River, the Whitewater River, the Zumbro River, the Cannon River, the Straight River, the Vermilion River, and more.

St. Croix River Drainage Basin:

Rivers of the St. Croix River Drainage Basin include the St. Croix River, the Sunrise River, the Snake River, the Groundhouse River, the Ann River, the Kettle River, the Grindstone River, the Pine River, the Willow River, the Moose Horn River, the Portage River, the Dead Moose River, the Wild River, the Upper Talmadge River, the Lower Talmadge River, and more.

Minnesota River Drainage Basin:

Rivers of the Minnesota River Drainage Basin include the Minnesota River, the Credit River, the Rush River, the Blue Earth River, the Maple River, the Cobb River, the Watonwan River, the Le Sueur River, the Little Cottonwood River, the Redwood River, the Yellow Medicine River, the Chippewa River, the Lac qui Parle River, the Pomme de Terre River, the Yellow Bank River, the Whetstone River, the Little Minnesota River, and more.

Upper Mississippi River Drainage Basin:

Rivers of the Upper Mississippi River Drainage Basin include the Missouri River, the Run River, the Crow River, the Elk River, the Clearwater River, the Sauk River, the Watab River, the Platte River, the Skunk River, the Two River, the Swan River, the Crow Wing River, the Nokasippi River, the Gull River, the Long Prairie River, the Leaf River, the Redeye River, the Wing River, the Cat River, the Shell River, the Fish Hook River, the Blueberry River, the Rabbit River, the Pine River, the West Savannah River, the Deer River, the Ball Club River, the Leech Lake River, the Boy River, the First River, the Turtle River, the Schoolcraft River, and more.

Hudson Bay Drainage Basin:

The Red River of the North can be found in the Hudson Bay Drainage Basin.

Red River of the North Drainage Basin:

Rivers of the Red River of the North Drainage basin include the Red River, the Roseau River, the Lost River, the Joe River, the Red Lake River, the Gentily River, the Black River, the Cleanwater River, the Poplar River, the Thief River, the Blackduck River, the Mud River, the Battle River, the Sand Hill River, the Marsh River, the Wild Rice River, the Buffalo River, the Otter Tail River, the Pelican River, the Toad River, the Egg River, the Bois de Sioux River, the Mustinka River, and more.

Lake of the Woods Drainage Basin:

Rivers of the Lake of the Woods Drainage Basin include the Warroad River, the Rainy River, the Winter Road River, the Rapid River, the Big Fork River, the Baudette River, the Bear River, the Sturgeon River, the Bowstring River, the Cross River, the Valley River, the Nett Lake River, the Bearskin River, the Shannon River, the Rat Root River, the Ash River, the Elbow River, the Johnson River, the Pike River, the Echo River, the Loon River, the Little Indian Sioux River, the Little Pony River, the Horse River, the Birch River, the Sea Gull River, the Forest River, and more.

Mountains:

The State's mountains are contained mainly in the Sawtooth Mountains Range of northeastern Minnesota and include Barden Peak, Carlton Peak, Chester Peak, Lutsen Mountain, Disappointment Mountain, Greenwood Mountain, Mount Josephine, Mallmann's Peak, Moose Mountain, Mount Northrop, Prospect Mountain, and Mount Reunion. Other mountains found in Minnesota include Eagle Mountain inside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the Superior National Forest, and the Misquah Hills Region, Minnesota's highest elevation point at 2301 feet tall, the Leaf Mountains in west central Minnesota, Inspiration Peak, the highest of the Leaf Mountains Range, Mount Nebo, a moraine drift in Todd County, and more.

Attractions:

Popular Attractions found in the State of Minnesota include the Rourke Art Gallery Museum, the Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center, the Minnesota Museum of Mining, the Kensington Runestone Historical Marker, the Minnesota Lakes Maritime Museum, the Pipestone National Monument, Winnewissa Falls, Paul Bunyan's Animal Land, the Wilderness Drive Through Itasca State Park, the Kabetagama Peninsula Wilderness Area, the State School Orphange Museum, the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, the Mall of America, the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, the North American Bear Center, the International Wolf Center, the Grand Portage National Monument, the Grand Portage State Forest, the Paul Bunyan Trail, the Mayo Clinic, the Lief Erikson Park and Rose Garden, the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, the Great Lakes Aquarium, the Lake Superior Maritime Museum, the Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory, the Minnesota Children's Museum, the Wabasha Street Caves, the Cathedral of St. Paul, the Minnesota Centennial Showboat, the Minnesota State Capital Complex, the Science Museum of Minnesota, the Minnesota Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Minnesota Transportation Museum, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, the Schubert Club Museum of Musical Instruments, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Minneapolis Stone Arch Bridge, the American Swedish Institute, the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary, the Basilica of St. Mary, the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway, the Mary Tyler Moore House, the Lake Wobegon Trail, the Superior National Forest Lookout Mountain Trails, the Lutsen Mountain Ski Area, the Judy Garland Museum, the Children's Discovery Museum, the Sherbourne National Wildlife Refuge, the Stillwater Depot, Logging and Railroad Museum, the National Eagle Center, the Spam Mountain and Visitor Center, the Birch Coulee Battlefield, the Northfield Historical Society Museum, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, the United States Hockey Hall of Fame, the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post, the Soudan Underground Mine, the Minnesota Wildlife Refuge, the Prairie Smoke Dunes, the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, the Green Giant Statue Park, the Cottonwood River Prairie, the North West Company Fur Post, the Dassel Area Historical Society Museum, the Universal Laboratories, the Jeffers Petroglyphs Historic Site, the Irownworld Museum, the Pillsbury State Forest, the Wilebski Bird Sanctuary, the Niagra Cave, the Chippewa National Forest, the Minnesota Agricultural Interpretive Center, the Wheels Across the Prairie Museum, the World's Largest Prairie Chicken, the Hinckley Fire Museum, and many more.

Minneapolis:

Incorporated in 1867, and found at Saint Anthony Falls, the highest Mississippi River waterfall, Minneapolis became famous as the "greatest direct drive waterpower center the world has ever seen, " with more than seventeen lumber mills once operating on water supplied from the Falls.

The growth of the Minneapolis area began with the 1819 Fort Snelling, originally known as Fort Saint Anthony, that was built to protect the region from Canadian and Indian attacks.

Possessing a Dakota Indian and Greek name, combining "mni" meaning "water, " and "polis" meaning "city, " Minneapolis can be found in Hennepin County on the banks of the Mississippi River.

The "City of Lakes" contains more than twenty lakes, creeks, waterfalls, wetlands, and the Chain of Lakes area consisting of Lyndale Park, Lake Harriett, Lake Calhoun, Lake of the Isles, Brownie Lake, Cedar Lake, and the Lyndale Farmstead.

Known as the world's flour milling capital, Minneapolis also contained mills for lumber, wool, iron works, cotton, sashes, paper, and textiles.

Minneapolis has been ranked by Popular Science Magazine as the 2005 Top Tech City In The United States, the Kiplinger's 2006 Second Best City of Smart Places To Live, and one of its Seven Cool Cities For Young Professionals.

Minneapolis was the birthplace of the 1968 American Indian Movement, to attempt to improve Native American affairs, and was involved in the 1972 siege of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington D.C., the 1973 Wounded Knee Standoff, and the Rainbow Coalition of the 1960s and 1970s.

Major industries that have been found in Minneapolis include finance, trucking, railroads, healthcare, publishing, food processing, insurance, graphic arts, high technology, automotive products, chemicals, agriculture, computers, electronics, medical instruments, lumber, and plastics.

Major Corporations that have been located in Minneapolis include Pillsbury, General Mills, Xcel Energy Central, US Bancorp, the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Service Organization, PepsiAmericas Incorporated, the Valspar International Paint and Coating Corporation, Ameriprise Financial Incorporated, the American Express Company, the Graco Fluid Handling Manufacturing Company, Wells Fargo, IBM, Qwest Communications International Incorporated, the Piper Jaffers Investment Company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Minneapolis is the third largest theater market in the United States and the second largest in live theater per capita.

Interlinked by the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area the city park system of Minneapolis is recognized as the best-designed and maintained in the Country.

With the second tallest skyline in the Midwestern United States Minneapolis contains the IDS Tower, the city's highest building, the Capella Tower, the Lumber Exchange Building, the Wells Fargo Center, the Campbell Mithun Tower, the Target Plaza South Building, the Carlyle Building, the ATT Tower, the Qwest Building, the Dain Rausher Plaza, the LaSalle Plaza, the Rand Tower, the Foshay Tower, and more.

Popular Minneapolis area Attractions include the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway, the Target's Holidazzle Parades from Thanksgiving to Christmas, Minnehaha Falls, the Twin Cities Marathon, the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, the Minneapolis Aquatennial Festival, the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the International Film Festival, and the Stone Arch Festival of the Arts.

Saint Paul:

Laying on the north bank of the Mississippi River, and joining Minneapolis to form the "Twin Cities" region, the 1849 capital of the Minnesota Territory, is the State's smallest County Seat.

Affectionately called Pig's Eye when first established, and founded as a major transportation and trading center, Saint Paul was originally known as Lambert's Landing.

"The Most Livable City In America" was originally inhabited by Hopewell Indians who constructed more than thirty-seven mounds in the area that became the Indian Mounds Park.

Through the 1836 Treaty of Washington, and several others, Native American Indians were relieved of the lands that contained the Saint Paul area.

Major industries that have been found in Saint Paul include steamboats, railroads, chemicals, finances, computer software, healthcare, automobiles, agriculture, and transportation.

Major Corporations that have been located in Saint Paul include Ecolab Incorporated, Lawson Software Americas Incorporated, Gander Mountain, the Ford Motor Company's Twin Cities Assembly Plant, Xcel Energy Incorporated, the Great Northern Railway Company, and the Burlington, Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company.

Saint Paul receives the coldest average mean temperatures of all major metropolitan areas in the Contenental United States.

Saint Paul was the birthplace of the "Peanuts" Cartoonist Charles M. Schultz.

Popular Saint Paul area Attractions include the Saint Paul Winter Carnival, the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory, the Indian Mounds Park, the Minnesota State Fair, oversized "Peanuts" characters scattered around the city, the Ordway Center For The Performing Arts, the Soapboxing Poetry Slam, the Minnesota Centennial Showboat Theatre, the Minnesota Children's Museum, the Traces Center For History and Culture, the Minnesota Transportation Museum, and the Twin City Model Railroad Museum.

Rochester:

Founded in 1854, and known as "Med City, " Rochester was a famous stagecoach stop that was demolished by a tornado on August 21, 1883.

Best known as the home of the Mayo Clinic, the Olmsted County Seat has been a long time mainstay on Money Magazine's list of Best Places To Live In The United States.

Originally built to treat wounded soldiers of the Civil War the Mayo Clinic has treated Presidents Gerald R. Ford, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan.

Major industries that have been found in Rochester include computer software, agriculture, transportation, education, and healthcare.

Major Corporations that have been located in Rochester include the IBM Corporation, known as the "Big Blue Zoo, " the Seneca Foods Corporation, the Kemps Dairy Products Company, and the Mayo Clinic.

Notable buildings in Rochester include the Sisters of Saint Francis Building, the IBM Rochester Building, the Gonda Building, the Plummer Building, the Guggenheim Building, the Mayo Building, and the Oakwood Broadway Plaza, the tallest building in the city.

Popular Rochester area Attractions include the Rochester Repertory Theatre, the Olmsted County Fair, the Mayowood Galleries, the Southeastern Minnesota Visual Arts Gallery, the History Center of Olmsted County, the Rochester Art Center, the Quarry Hill Nature Center, and the Root River and Douglas State Trails.

Duluth:

Found on the north shore of Lake Superior, and linked by the Saint Lawrence Seaway, the New York State Barge Canal, the Great Lakes, and the Erie Canal, Duluth is the Atlantic Ocean's westernmost deep water port city.

Originally explored by French fur trappers, and part of the "Twin Ports" region with Superior, Wisconsin, Duluth possesses the Ojibwa Indian name of "Onigamiinsin, " meaning "at the little portage".

The 1850s Copper Rush, lumber, and iron ore mining allowed Duluth to expand into a leading city on the Saint Louis River, begin attracting more millionaires per capita than any other city in the world, and become a popular playground for the rich and famous.

At the beginning of the 1900s Duluth was the leading port in the United States, but, became known as the location "where the Rust Belt began" during the 1970s.

Duluth's dominant steep hill geography has earned the city the popular name of "the San Fransisco of the Mid-West".

Major industries that have been found in Duluth include transportation, agriculture, steel, cement, wind turbine components, industrial machinery, aquatic biology, fishing, railroads, automotive tools, shipbuilding, military supplies, heavy machinery, logging, copper, rock salt, and tourism.

Major Corporations that have been located in Duluth include the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad, the United States Steel Corporation, the Duluth Works Manufacturing Complex, the Diamond Calk Horseshoe Company, the US EPA Mid-Continent Ecology Division Laboratory, the ASci Corporation's Environmental Testing Laboratory, the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company, and the Union Pacific Railroad Company.

Movies, television programs, books, and musical recordings featuring Duluth include Far North, Iron Will, You'll Like My Mother, Battleground Minnesota, Minnesota: Land of Plenty, Mystery Diagnosis, Power, Privilege, and Justice, Songs of the Unforgiven, The Louie Show, the Gore Vidal novel "Duluth, " Leatherheads, and The Genocides.

Popular Duluth area Attractions include the Duluth Art Institute, the Tweed Museum of Art, the Homegrown Music Festival, the Grandma's Marathon, the Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon, the Glensheen Historic Estate, the Thomas Wilson Whaleback Freighter Shipwreck, the Sundew Museum Ship, the William A. Irvin Museum, and the Great Lakes Aquarium.

Bloomington:

Becoming a city on November 8, 1960, the home of the Mall of America, was created along the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge as a post-World War Two suburb of Minneapolis.

Found on the north banks of the Minnesota River Bloomington contains more than one thousand square feet of parkland per capita.

Originally known as Oak Grove, and containing a name meaning "flowering field, " the 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux opened Bloomington to settlement.

Major industries that have been found in Bloomington include hospitality, retail, light rail transportation, railroads, flour mills, agriculture, blacksmithing, manufacturing, and healthcare.

Major Corporations that have been located in Bloomington include the Ceridian Information Services Corporation, HealthPartners, the Toro Manufacturing Company, and the Ikea International Home Products Company.

Popular Bloomington area Attractions include the Bloomington Ice Garden, the Water Park of America, Camp Snoopy, the Hyland Lake Park Reserve, the Underwater Adventures Aquarium, Nickelodean Universe, the Richardson Nature Center, the Normandale Japanese Garden, the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, the Science Museum of Minnesota, the Gibbs Museum of Pioneer and Dakotah Life, the Ellingson Car Museum, and the Bell Museum of Natural History.

Series:

The United States Series I am writing here on associatedcontent.com provides an indepth look at all fifty States that make up this GREAT Country of ours and their five largest cities.

The current list of Articles for the United States Series I have published to date includes:

So This Is Sweet Home Alabama Alaska - The Land of the Midnight Sun Arizona - The Valley of the Sun Arkansas - People of the South Wind California - The Golden Gate, Earthquakes and Grizzly Bears Colorful Colorado - The Rocky Mountains, Skiing, and High Technology Connecticut - The Land of Steady Habits Deleware - The Small Wonder Florida - The Snowbirds R Us State Georgia - Goobers, Peaches, and Buzzards Hawaii - Luaus, Pineapples, and Beaches Idaho - The Gem of the Mountains and Potatoes State Illinois - Mining, Factories, and Labor Unions Indiana - Land of Steel and Ducks Iowa - The Ethanol and Food Capital of the World Bleeding Kansas America's Flattest State Kentucky - The Land of Tomorrow Louisiana - The Child of the Mississippi Maine - Lobsters, Lighthouses, and Black Bears Maryland - The "Oh Say Can You See" State Massachusetts - The Cradle of Liberty Michigan - The Automotive State Mississippi - Where Cotton Was King

Comments from readers are always welcome so let me know what you think about these Articles.

Sources:

This Article was compiled from several websites that provide much more information about Minnesota including:

minneapolis.org, visitsaintpaul.com, rochestercvb.org, bloomingtonmn.org, and visitduluth.com

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