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Article: Minnesota Historical Society was here before the state.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- October 17, 1999
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1/3 "Write your history as you go along, and you will confer a favor upon the future inhabitants of Minnesota, for which they will be forever grateful."
- The Rev. Edward D. Neill in 1850, at one of the Minnesota Historical Society's first meetings.
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Talk about confidence that the place would amount to something! Before Minnesota had much of a recorded history at all, it had a historical society.
It was on Oct. 20, 1849 - nine years before statehood and just seven months after the Minnesota Territory was established - that the Minnesota Historical Society was organized. With its borders reaching to the Missouri River and ...