A week from Sunday, I will be on a bus to Pipestone, MN, the city with this unusual motto.
I've never been there. This is what I've learned:
» Founded in 1876.
» Incorporated as a village in 1881, with train service nine years later on four different rail lines.
» Named after the red stone quarried by Native Americans to make pipe bowls.
» Leader in wind technology; nearly 800 wind generator towers.
» Despite the fact that I'm packing a swimsuit, the city has a total area of 4.18 square miles, all of it land.
» Quarry site (depicted in this sketch from the 1800s) was the first site in the U.S. to be declared a national monument by Congress.
» Despite all of the recognition of its historical and cultural significance, Pipestone was formerly home to a Native American Boarding School, which were known for their repression of Native American culture and contribution to the genocide and ethnocide of Native Americans.
» It is really close to South Dakota.
I think there's gotta be water nearby.
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