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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZSW_goodhue-county-veterans-memorial_Red-Wing-MN.html
Dedicated to those who gave their lives in service to their country.
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Goodhue County Veterans Memorial · May 21, 1988
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZDL_remember-the-maine_Red-Wing-MN.html
In Memory of the Soldiers, Sailors and Marinesof theSpanish American War, who Volunteered in the Cause ofFreedom, Patriotism, and Humanity.Dedicated by theDepartment of Minnesota AuxiliaryUnited Spanish War VeteransJune 19, 1943
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXCZ_the-sea-wing-disaster-victims-of-the-sea-wing-disaster_Red-Wing-MN.html
On July 13, 1890 the steamer Sea Wing, heavily loaded with 215 passengers and crew, left the steamboat landing here for a Sunday excursion down the Mississippi River to Lake City.
The Sea Wing, based in Diamond Bluff, Wisconsin, was usually emp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX4D_chicago-milwaukee-st-paul-railroad-depot_Red-Wing-MN.html
The construction of this building began in 1904 following an agreement in which the city of Red Wing provided trackage concessions and the railroad agreed to construct this depot and donate money toward construction of Levee Park. This building wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWZ2_william-colvill_Red-Wing-MN.html
William Colvill was born in New York state on April 5, 1830. As a young lawyer he moved to Red Wing in 1854, becoming the town's first city attorney.
On April 19, 1861 — one week after the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter — a citi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW5R_t-b-sheldon-memorial-auditorium_Red-Wing-MN.html
Theodore B. Sheldon, prominent local grain merchant and business leader, bequeathed to the City of Red Wing half of his estate to be used for a public purpose. After his death in 1900, his trustees chose to construct the T.B. Sheldon Memorial Audi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVMQ_national-newspaper-association_Red-Wing-MN.html
Launched from Red Wing, the National Newspaper Association has been the voice and vehicle of grassroots American journalism for 100 years.
NNA was founded as the National Editorial Assn. but was renamed in 1965. Today it embraces approximately …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUUT_geology-of-minnesota_Red-Wing-MN.html
During the great ice ages the landscape of Minnesota was profoundly altered by continental glaciers in four major epochs of glaciation. In this area, as elsewhere, the closing stage of each epoch was characterized by the release of floods of meltw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMULL_civil-war-memorial_Red-Wing-MN.html
Erectedto theMemoryof theVolunteerSoldiersofGoodhue County1861-1865
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQK3_the-g-a-carlson-lime-kiln_Red-Wing-MN.html
The G.A. Carlson Lime Kiln, built in 1882 on the northeast end of Barn Bluff (Mt. LaGrange), is typical of approximately thirty such kilns in use in the Red Wing area during the period from 1870 to 1908. Gustavus Adolphus Carlson at one time opera…