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This Day in Minnesota History

May 21, 1839

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Donald McDonald receives the first steamboat shipment of cargo to the settlement that would become St. Paul. Six barrels of whiskey are delivered to McDonald's shop, the "Half-Way House," in Inyan Tipi (Fountain Cave).

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