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Rochester Minnesota is home to the number one hospital in the world so it makes sense that the city is commonly referred to as the Med-City, but have you ever heard someone call it the Queen City? I was driving on North Broadway this afternoon when I noticed the sign above. I hadn’t noticed the sign before and I don’t think I’ve ever heard the term so I did some digging to figure out what a “Queen City” was and why Rochester was once described as one.
The Dictionary defines “Queen City” as the preeminent city of a region. That makes sense but there’s more to the story. I dug up an article from the Post Bulletin that was published thirty years ago in 1991 and explained how Rochester got the nickname.
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