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Dorothy Molter Museum

Ely, MN

Dorothy Molter became known as the 'Root Beer Lady' while living alone for decades in what became the Boundary Waters wilderness. Her relocated cabins and artifacts preserve the story of an unusually independent life that ended only after wilderness rules made her the final resident of the area.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: rootbeerlady.com

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