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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BZL_ice-age-souvenir_Ramsey-MN.html
Twenty thousand years ago, a great sheet of ice, the Superior lobe, covered thisarea. At its farthest advance, it formed the St. Croix moraine, a series of high hills to thewest, south, and east. When it melted, it left behind vast deposits of gra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BPJ_itasca-village-townsite_Ramsey-MN.html
Itasca grew up around an Indian trading post which was established 800 feet east of here in 1849 by Thomas A. Holmes and James Beatty. At the suggestion of Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey, the settlement was named in honor of Lake Itasca, th…