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Rochester The Zumbro River winding through Rochester, Minnesota.

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Minnesota, United States
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Rochester, city, seat of Olmsted county, southeastern Minnesota, U.S. It lies on the Zumbro River and on several creeks in a mixed-farming region about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Minneapolis. The site, which originally served as a camping ground for wagon trains and later as a stagecoach and rail centre, was settled in 1854 and named for Rochester, New York, by George Head, an early settler who had lived there for a time. Rochester’s...

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