On This Date in Minnesota History: September 7

September 7, 1885 – “Minnesota’s first Labor Day celebration was held at Cottage Park in White Bear Lake [on this date]. It was sponsored by the St. Paul Trades & Labor Assembly, an assembly of the Knights of Labor that included carpenters, printers, plasterers, cigarmakers, boot and shoe workers, railroad machinists, streetcar employees and many others. Minnesota’s first Labor Day event was held three years after the first Labor Day, held in 1882 in New York City.”

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Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Sept. 7, 2015,
as long as acknowledgement included.  

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