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The Minnesota Historical Society is a private, non-profit educational and cultural instutution dedicated to preserving the history of the state of Minnesota. It was founded by the territorial legislature in 1849 and is named in the Minnesota Constitution. The society owns and operates 26 museums and historic sites, some within the Minnesota state parks. It currently holds a collection of nearly 550,000 books, 37,000 maps, 250,000 photographs, 165,000 historical artifacts, 800,000 archaeological items, 38,000 cubic feet (1100 m³) of manuscripts, 45,000 cubic feet (1300 m³) of government records, 5,500 paintings, prints and drawings, and 1,300 moving image items. These are stored in the $76.4 million History Center located in Minnesota's capital, St. Paul.

State Historic Sites

Location	Era of features	Year added to MHS	Remarks
Morton	September 2, 1862		Interprets the deadliest battle for U.S. troops in the Dakota War of 1862.
Moorhead	1882		The restored home of Congressman and businessman Solomon Comstock with its original furnishings.
Taylors Falls	1854-1968		The restored home of politician W.H.C. Folsom.
Grand Rapids	1900-1934		Recreated logging camp and exhibits on humankind's relationship with Minnesota's forests.
Fort Ridgely State Park	1853-1867		A fort built to keep the peace around a Dakota reservation, but attacked twice during the Dakota War of 1862.
New Ulm	1870-1901	1973	An intact general store with much of the original inventory still on display.
Forestville Mystery Cave State Park	1853-1899	1978	A restored town with living history reenactors.
Fort Snelling State Park	1820-1946		Portions of the fort have been restored to their original frontier appearance, while later additions served as barracks for soldiers training during World War II.
Elk River	1850-1901	1961	A working frontier farmstead.
St. Paul	1891-1921	1978	The mansion of railroad magnate James J. Hill.
Jeffers	3000 BCE-1750	1966	Exposed rocks bear ancient Native American petroglyphs.
Lac qui Parle State Park	1835-1854		A reconstructed wooden church where missionaries worked to convert the Dakota.
Charles A. Lindbergh State Park	1906-1920		House of Congressman Charles August Lindbergh and his son, aviator Charles Lindbergh.
Lower Sioux Indian Reservation	1853-		Depicts the lives of Dakota people before and after the Dakota War of 1862.
Marine on St. Croix	1839-1895		Ruins of Minnesota's first commercial sawmill.
Le Sueur	1859-		Home built by William Worrall Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic, and later home of Carson Nesbit Cosgrove, founder of the Green Giant food company.
Mille Lacs Indian Reservation	Prehistory-present		Presents the history and culture of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe.
Minneapolis	1874-1965		Presents the flour milling industry that built Minneapolis, within the ruins of the Washburn "A" Mill.
Minneapolis	1875-	1964	A former train station near Minnehaha Falls with "gingerbread" Victorian architecture.
St. Paul	Prehistory-present		The Minnesota Historical Society's headquarters, with permanent and traveling museum exhibits and a library.
St. Paul	1905-present	1969	Tours and exhibits of the state's seat of government.
Pine City	1804		A recreated North West Company trading post and Ojibwe encampment.
St. Paul	1872-1964	1964	Home of Congressman and Minnesota governor Alexander Ramsey with original furnishings.
Mendota	1838-1910		Homes of Henry Hastings Sibley, Minnesota's first state governor, and fur trader Jean-Baptiste Faribault.
Split Rock Lighthouse State Park	1910-1969	1976	Lighthouse on the Lake Superior shore restored to its 1920s appearance.
St. Peter	Prehistory-1869	1981	Site of a river ford, the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, and a former town.

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