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This Day in Minnesota History

September 25, 1867

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Horace Goodhue Jr. opens a prep school in Northfield with twenty-three students. The institution is first known as Northfield College, but a generous donation from William Carleton of Charlestown, Massachusetts, inspired its later name, Carleton College.

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