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Kensington Rune Stone Park — Discovery Site

Kensington, MN

This county park preserves the Ohman farm landscape where Olof Ohman said he discovered the Kensington Runestone in 1898. A modern display interprets the find at the original site, while Minnesota's state archaeologist notes that most professional scholars consider the stone a late-nineteenth-century creation rather than medieval evidence.

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

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Source: douglascountymn.gov/kensington-runestone-park

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