Case Files. Condemnations, 1964-1968.

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Case Files. Condemnations, 1964-1968.

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Condemnation cases regarding expansion of state lands for various public facilities: Forestville State Park, the Capitol area, Moorhead State College, Camp Ripley, and the state health building.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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These cases had their genesis in a bill of complaint filed with the United States Supreme Court by the state of Wisconsin in 1922, seeking an injunction to restrain the state of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago from diverting water from Lake Michigan through the Chicago River into the Des Plaines River and ultimately the Mississippi. This linkage, completed in 1900, not only facilitated navigation between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River waterways system, but a...