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Minnesota Boat Club, the state's oldest athletic organisation, on Raspberry Island
1870
Saint Paul, Minnesota
McGhiever · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rowers founded the Minnesota Boat Club in 1870, making it the oldest athletic organisation in the state, and put a wooden boathouse on this small Mississippi island below downtown in 1885. George H. Carsley designed the Mission Revival replacement that went up in 1910 and still stands. Dakota, Ojibwe and Ho-Chunk people had used the island as a meeting place well before the city named it for its raspberries.
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