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March 2025

Dangers and Disasters Tours

March 8 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
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One event on March 8, 2025 at 10:00 am

Mill City Museum, 704 2nd St. S.
Minneapolis,55401United States
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$25

Flour milling could be a dangerous job. Workers were exposed to constantly moving machinery, high-powered water turbines, and tall grain elevators where one wrong move might have disastrous consequences. This tour of the Washburn A Mill will explore the dangers that workers faced on the job, including the deadly 1878 mill explosion that led to the destruction and rebuilding of the riverfront industrial district. The tour will also include discussions of daily workplace machinery hazards such as the “Humphrey manlift."…

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