Editing Laporte, Minnesota (section)

==History==
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The city of Laporte was founded in 1901 and incorporated as a city in 1908. The city had a period of prosperity where it had a [[train depot]], a [[hotel]] (which was torn down to make a [[filling station]]), a bank (which was subject to an explosion in the 1930s), and a pickle factory (which burned down in the first half of the 20th century). Also during this period, the city of Laporte had a jail, of which it only had one inmate, who subsequently escaped via breaking a hole through the roof of the jail; after this incident all further inmates were sent to [[Bemidji, Minnesota|Bemidji]].