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What’s the history of the Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory and the Whipple Building?

What’s the history of the Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory and the Whipple Building?

Curious Minnesota

March 3, 202618m 40s

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Show Notes

The Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, the federal government headquarters for U.S. Immigration Court and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, isn’t part of Historic Fort Snelling, but it sits on a small, unincorporated swath of land known as the Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory. Reporter Chris Vondracek talks with host Erica Pearson about the troubled history of that land, including the first arrival of the U.S. government to this area.