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This Day in Minnesota History

November 15, 1880

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ISBN: 0873514165
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A fire at St. Peter State Hospital (later renamed the St. Peter Regional Treatment Center), a mental asylum, kills between ten and fifteen inmates. The first mental institution in the state, the asylum had opened on December 6, 1866.

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First published: July 1, 2015
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