Minnesota Written by Kaylice and Janita

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Minnesota Written by Kaylice and Janita

• Minnesotas official flag was adopted in
• 1957.
• One nickname for Minnesota is the Gopher state.
• The largest lake in Minnesota is Red Lake.
• The hottest temperature recorded in Minnesota was
  114 degrees both in 1917 and 1936.

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Major Industries

• Farming corn, soybeans, sugar beets, wheat, and
  dairy products.
• Mining iron ore

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Tourist Attractions

• Fort Snelling -Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Glensheen Mansion in Duluth, Minnesota
• Iron World Museum- Chisholm, Minnesota
• Mayo Clinic-Rochester, Minnesota

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Famous People

• Sinclair Lewis, novelist and playwright,
• first American Nobel prize winner.
• Henry Hastings Sibley, first Governor of
• Minnesota
• James Jerome Hill, built a railroad system
• stretching from Minnesota to Puget Sound.

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States That Border

• East- Wisconsin
• West- South Dakota and North Dakota
• North- Canada
• South- Iowa

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Minnesota

• The state insect is the Monarch Butterfly

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Minnesota

• The state flag.