Grand Portage National Monument

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Located beside the Canadian border, this is where the early voyageurs had to carry their canoes around the Pigeon River rapids. It was the center of a far-flung trading empire, and the reconstructed 1788 trading post and Ojibwe village is worth seeing.

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