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Old 03-09-2021, 09:14 PM
 
Location: Minnesota
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They need to return them. It doesn't sound like they were rightfully given. But putting them in an outdoor display I don't think is the answer. The should go the the Minnesota history museum in St Paul, IMO

https://www.southwestjournal.com/foc...00-pound-bell/
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Old 03-10-2021, 03:39 AM
 
Location: Minnysoda
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They need to return them. It doesn't sound like they were rightfully given. But putting them in an outdoor display I don't think is the answer. The should go the the Minnesota history museum in St Paul, IMO

https://www.southwestjournal.com/foc...00-pound-bell/
If you're so worried about History, Shouldn't it be Lake Calhoun? Just saying......
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Old 03-10-2021, 08:26 AM
 
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They need to return them. It doesn't sound like they were rightfully given. But putting them in an outdoor display I don't think is the answer. The should go the the Minnesota history museum in St Paul, IMO

https://www.southwestjournal.com/foc...00-pound-bell/
Clearly any nautically themed historic artifacts concerning Minnesota belong with Minnetonka high school because they are the Skippers. They should add a few ship cannons so they can sound them off after a touchdown.
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Old 03-10-2021, 09:36 AM
 
Location: Minnesota
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Wheel was reported stolen. Bell went missing. Sounds like stolen property to me.


"Police reported the wheel stolen in 1975 and the bell was taken some time around 2014 — the Minneapolis Park Board isn’t sure exactly when. Until a few weeks ago, the Park Board knew who took the bell though not where, and the fate of the wheel remained a total mystery."

They were not his to give away

"In spring 2007, about seven years before Ward gave the bell to Minnetonka High School, he had presented the school with the wheel from the battleship Minnesota.

Digging through the school’s archives on May 21, staff surfaced a letter, signed by Ward on behalf of Post 1, offering the wheel as “an historical artifact that may compliment” the Skippers’ new all-turf baseball diamond, Veterans Field."

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Old 03-10-2021, 09:58 AM
 
Location: Minnesota
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If you're so worried about History, Shouldn't it be Lake Calhoun? Just saying......
As much as I don't care for the new name for Lake Calhoun, it was not the original name per history if you want to get technical about it. In less than a generation the new name will be accepted and they will forget it was ever given the temporary Lake Calhoun.

Found this regarding the naming the lake Calhoun:

According to the Star Tribune and other sources, federal surveyors named the city lake in the early 1800s for Calhoun, who was then secretary of war.

This all happened long before Minnesota became a state in 1858.
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