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Travel Guides, Small-Town Stories & Hidden Gems

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America’s Small Towns Have Big Stories!

Alexandria, Minnesota: GIANT Vikings, Lakes, and One of Minnesota's Greatest Mysteries

No attraction has brought Alexandria more international attention than the Kensington Runestone. In 1898, Swedish immigrant Olof Ohman claimed to have discovered a 202-pound greywacke stone covered in ancient Nordic runes while clearing land near Kensington, Minnesota. According to Ohman, the stone was found intertwined among the roots of a tree…

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Moorhead, Minnesota History: From Lake Agassiz to the Birthplace of the Dilly Bar

Today, Moorhead, Minnesota, is best known as one-half of the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area, a thriving regional hub along the Red River of the North. Yet the city's story—which includes the invention of Dairy Queen’s famous Dilly Bar—begins thousands of years before its first settlers arrived, when a massive prehistoric lake covered much of the northern Great Plains.

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