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==History== Tracy was [[plat]]ted in 1875.<ref name="history">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA131 | title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways | author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company | year=1908 | page=131}}</ref> It was named for John F. Tracy, a railroad official.<ref name="history" /><ref name=WPA>{{cite book |author=<!--The Federal Writer's Project--> |orig-date=1938|date=1985 |title=WPA Guide to Minnesota |url= |publisher=[[Minnesota Historical Society]]|location=[[Saint Paul, Minnesota]] |pages=406 |isbn=0873517121}}</ref> A post office called Tracy has been in operation since 1877.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Lyon&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Lyon County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=March 30, 2015}}</ref> The city was incorporated in 1893.<ref>{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance|url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog|year=1920|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n333 314]}}</ref> On June 13, 1968, Tracy was hit by [[1968 Tracy tornado|an F5 tornado]] which killed nine people and injured 150. Until the 1960s, Tracy was a highly active railroad town on the [[Chicago & Northwestern Railway]] as a concentration point for numerous branch lines in the area serving heavy agriculture. Today, Tracy holds an annual summer festival called "Boxcar Days," which takes place [[Labor Day]] weekend as a sign of the railroad's influence on the town.<ref name=WPA/> Tracy is a division point on the [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] (formerly the [[Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad]]), where railroad crews from both east and west exchange trains.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}
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