Geography of the Twin Cities
St. Anthony Park
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St. Anthony Park

Slide 32: The roles of women changed greatly during World War II. Huge labor shortages encouraged women to work in defense plants, like the Arden Hills Arsenal, located a few miles north of St. Anthony Park. Although most of the women working in defense plants returned to homemaking after the war, the old model of single income households was broken.
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