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RED WING , a city and the county seat of Goodhue county, Minnesota, U.S.A., on the W. bank of the Mississippi river, near the head of Lake Pepin, about 4o M. S.E. of St Paul. Pop. (1905, state census ) 8149, 2138 being foreign-born; (1910) 9048.Et is served by the Chicago Great
Seminary (1894) and the Red Wing Theological Seminary (Lutheran, 1885), and in the vicinity is the State Training School for Boys and Girls, originally the Minnesota State Reform School. In the city are the Carnegie
Hospital
Hospital
home . Red Wing is an important wheat market and shipping point.In 1695 Le Sueur built a post on Prairie Island
Boucher built on the shore of Lake Pepin a fort which, after various vicissitudes, was abandoned in 1753. An Indian village
chief
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