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GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Minnesota

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Historical Encyclopedia of St. Paul, MN (1830-1850)

Library of Congress - Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820 to 1910

Minnesota Archaeology - From Site to Story

Archaeology along the Mississippi River in Minnesota including archaeological data, interpretation, graphics, bibliograpies, maps and links.

Minnesota Encyclopedia | MNopedia

A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.

Minnesota Historical Society - Visit 26 historic sites and museums

Minnesota History Timeline

Minnesota State Archives

Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO)

National Register of Historic Places / Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office

More than 1,500 Minnesota listings, encompassing over 6,000 properties from all counties in the state, can be found on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), the nation's official list of properties deemed worthy of preservation.

Pioneering the Upper Midwest

Pioneering the Upper Midwest, ca. 1820-1910, contains seventeenth- to early twentieth-century accounts of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin as recorded in 138 books drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections and Rare Books and Special Collections Division.