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I m not originally from Minnesota, so I don t know if the story of the
Republic of Kinney is common knowledge to Minnesota natives or not. I only learned of the story of Kinney this week, and I couldn t believe I d never heard it before! The story of a small Minnesota community that took matters into its own hands, theirs is the stuff of legends and I think the kind of story that ought to be taught in every Minnesota history class!
According to Atlast Obscura, Kinney (pop. 192 in 2019) was established in 1910 as a makeshift mining town. Only designed to support the population working the local iron mines, an unexpected population boom quickly took a toll on Kinney s already-weak infrastructure. The municipal water system, especially, felt the strain, but every attempt to secure federal funds to upgrade the system met a wall of red tape. Frustrated, the locals meeting at Mary s Bar a tavern owned by then-Mayor Mary Anderson began to joke, If we can t get domestic aid,
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