• since being dedicated for "park and parkway" purposes in 1909, Dickerman Park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, has been primarily used for parking lots and front yards of businesses?
• scientists are unsure why Lake Phalen, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is home to a population of rainbow darters, a fish normally found in fast-moving streams?
• the 50-foot (15 m)-tall neon sign of the First National Bank Building in Saint Paul, Minnesota can be seen from 75 miles (120 km) away on a clear night?
• the James J. Hill House in Saint Paul, Minnesota, built in 1891 by railroad magnate James J. Hill, has 36,000 square feet of living area and is the largest residence in Minnesota?
• the Skyline Towers apartment building in Saint Paul, Minnesota is often referred to as a "ghetto in the sky"?
• for fifty years the Red River Trails were used by Red River ox carts as the principal means of transportation between modern-day Winnipeg, Manitoba and St Paul, Minnesota?
• despite over 85% of American Indian students giving it their support, the mascot controversy at Humboldt High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota resulted in the abandonment of its Indians mascot?
• Lucien Galtier, the first Roman Catholic priest in Minnesota, was responsible for renaming the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, from its previous name of Pig's Eye?
• City Academy High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota, became the first charter school in the U.S. when it opened its doors to 30 students on September 7, 1992?
• Pearson's Candy Company, a Saint Paul, Minnesota confectioner, once produced the Seven Up Bar and the Chicken Dinner Bar?
• Summit Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, a well preserved Victorian residential boulevard, is home to three National Historic Landmarks and five other structures on the National Register of Historic Places?
• after Edward Phelan was acquitted of murder, indicted on perjury charges and killed by companions in self-defense, one of the largest lakes in Saint Paul, Minnesota was named after him?
• Saint Paul, Minnesota was once known as "Pig's Eye"?

Facts on topics related to Saint Paul, Minnesota

Minneapolis

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow never lived in Minneapolis's Longfellow House (pictured), a two-thirds scale model of his house built by an admirer of his work?
• Minneapolis businessman Robert "Fish" Jones drove Ulysses Grant and William T. Sherman down Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on their post-war tours?
• Minneapolis' bicycle sharing system Nice Ride Minnesota served over 10,000 trips in its first month?
• Thomas E. Latimer, a one-term mayor of Minneapolis, also played a key role in the landmark freedom of the press case Near v. Minnesota?
• an April Fool's Day "news story" which suggested that bull sharks had been found in Minneapolis's Minnehaha Creek drew almost 1,000 hits a day to the Nokomis East Neighborhood Association's website?
• during World War II, the Roosevelt Community Library in Minneapolis held storytimes for children, partly to help reduce juvenile delinquency in the Standish neighborhood?
• it was rumored that some seals escaped Minneapolis's Longfellow Zoological Gardens into nearby Minnehaha Creek?
• residents of 22½ St. in Minneapolis petitioned the City Council and changed the street's name to Milwaukee Avenue because the '½' made them feel as if they lived in an alley?
• the city of Minneapolis refused the gift from T. B. Walker (pictured) that may have included a landscape by Frederic Edwin Church later sold for US$8.5 million?
• the first East Lake Community Library in Minneapolis was called a "reading factory" because it looked like a storefront?

Minnesota

• Minnesota congresswoman Coya Knutson sang and played her accordion at campaign events?
• Minnesota's Buffalo Ridge is the site of the first wind farm in the upper Midwest?
• Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis, the son of professional wrestler Road Warrior Animal, is the first Buckeyes scholarship football player from Minnesota since 1933?
• Saint Paul, Minnesota was once known as "Pig's Eye"?
• algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa?
• Cornbread Harris, who performed on Minnesota's first rock and roll record, is the father of record producer Jimmy Jam?
• dessert bars are considered one of two essentials for potlucks in Minnesota, the other being hotdish?
• Gordon Parks High School, an alternative school in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is named after the famous photographer?
• Itasca State Park (pictured) in Minnesota contains the headwaters of the Mississippi River?
• Judge C. R. Magney State Park in Minnesota contains the Devil's Kettle (pictured), a waterfall in which half of the Brule River disappears into a glacial kettle?