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This Day in Minnesota History

July 9, 1823

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Major Stephen H. Long leaves Fort St. Anthony (later called Fort Snelling) to explore areas of present-day Minnesota then unknown to the United States. Giacomo C. Beltrami joins Long as he travels up the Minnesota River and then down the Red River to Lake Winnipeg.

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