3M Plant, Saint Paul, Minnesota

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3M Plant
2001
Neighborhood/s:	Dayton's Bluff, Saint Paul, Minnesota
City/locality- State/province	Saint Paul, Minnesota
County- State/province:	Ramsey County, Minnesota
State/province:	Minnesota
Country:	United States
Historic Function:	Industrial site

Dayton's Bluff Saint Paul Ramsey

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3M Plant, Saint Paul, Minnesota
(44.963826262282,-93.064670562744)

Location of original 3M plant in St. Paul. Nearly 5,000 workers here were organized into the Gas and Coke Workers Union (CIO) during the 1940s, now the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical & Energy Workers union. Some 15 workers were killed in an industrial explosion here in the 1950s. 3M Explosion

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This place is part of the Saint Paul Labor History Tour

Notes

The explosion could be heard as far away as Saint Clair Ave. and Lexington -- the Crocus Hill area.