Red Wing, Minnesota

Red Wing is a city and the <a href="/facts/County_seat/ItAWPoWw">county seat</a> of <a href="/facts/Goodhue_County,_Minnesota/VLBvRPqh">Goodhue County, Minnesota</a>, United States, along the upper <a href="/facts/Mississippi_River/RduarPzj">Mississippi River</a>. The population was 16,547 at the <a href="/facts/2020_United_States_census/dTEm5TRr">2020 census</a>. It is part of the <a href="/facts/Minneapolis%E2%80%93Saint_Paul_metropolitan_area/jMN3SqzK">Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area</a>.
This city is named for early 19th-century Dakota <a href="/facts/Sioux/NoM3bc62">Sioux</a> chief <a href="/facts/Tatankamani/nR0s5yLU">Red Wing</a>. The federal government established a <a href="/facts/Mdewakanton/Eh82kHVm">Mdewakanton</a> Sioux <a href="/facts/Indian_reservation/Y52l5YFG">Indian reservation</a>—now <a href="/facts/Prairie_Island_Indian_Community/9zsQrCXv">Prairie Island Indian Community</a>—in 1889 along the Mississippi River to free up land for new settlers. The city of Red Wing developed around it.
The <a href="/facts/National_Trust_for_Historic_Preservation/BhjL7X8M">National Trust for Historic Preservation</a> placed Red Wing on its 2008 distinctive destinations list because of its "impressive architecture and enviable natural environment."

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Red Wing, Minnesota