On This Date in Minnesota History: November 16

November 16, 1854 – “The high school department of what is now Hamline University opened for business in Red Wing. It suspended operations in 1869, reopened in St. Paul in 1880, but its original founding date makes it the oldest college in the state.”

http://www.thehistorypeople.com/data/docs/timeline-part1.pdf

Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Nov. 16, 2015,
as long as acknowledgement included.

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