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MNHS cancels Alexander Ramsey House tours scheduled for anniversary of Mankato hangings
The Alexander Ramsey House is one of 26 historic sites MNHS manages across the state. Ramsey, who was governor of Minnesota during the 1862 U.S.-Dakota war, called for the Dakota to “be ...
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Minnesota, slavery and the powers that be
If the names Henry Hastings Sibley, Henry Rice and Alexander Ramsey ring a bell, it’s because they were important men in Minnesota’s history. Their contributions are many. Sibley was the ...
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At the front lines
In 1861, Minnesota Gov. Alexander Ramsey answered President Abraham Lincoln’s initial call for volunteer Union troops at the outset of the American Civil War with an offer of 1,000 Minnesota men.