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Early residents on Milwaukee Avenue

...that residents of 22½ St. in Minneapolis petitioned the City Council and changed the street's name to Milwaukee Avenue (pictured) because the '½' made them feel as if they lived in an alley?
...that the exposed bedrock of the Duluth Complex was formed from magma emitted when the North American plate began to split apart in the Midcontinent Rift?
...that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow never lived in Minneapolis's Longfellow House, a two-thirds scale model of his house built by an admirer of his work?