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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D7T_stillwater-veterans-memorial_Stillwater-MN.html
Veterans MemorialDedicated 2004
These plaques form a Wall of Honor that bears the names of the more than 100 service personnel who attended Stillwater area schools and lost their lives in times of war.
Veterans, living or dead, whose names a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D79_samuel-bloomer_Stillwater-MN.html
Samuel Bloomer, MarriedMiss NelliePressnell,who was born in Shipton-Under-Wychwood, England,Aug. 10, 1845.Children:Chas. H. Bloomer,Born Sept. 27, 1866,Died Apr. 25, 1891.Grace G BloomerBorn Feb. 18, 1872,Died Feb. 1, 1874.
Samuel Bloomer,Color…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTJ9_geology-of-minnesota_Stillwater-MN.html
The site of this tablet marks the northern limit of Lake St. Croix, impounded by the natural dam of sand and gravel, made by the Mississippi where it is joined by the St. Croix River, twenty miles below Stillwater. The valley, with its steep banks…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTH4_minnesota-territory-1849-1858-washington-county-takes-shape_Stillwater-MN.html
Minnesota Territory 1849 - 1858 On March 3, 1849, during his last hours in office, President James K. Polk signed a bill adding a new name to the American political landscape - Minnesota Territory. A vast land, it stretched from the St. Croix Rive…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTG6_washington-county-courthouse_Stillwater-MN.html
Minnesota's first courthouse, a three-room frame structure erected at the corner of 4th and Chestnut Street in Stillwater in 1849, had become inadequate by 1866. On November 6 of that year, Washington County voters approved funds for the construct…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTDK_tamarack-house_Stillwater-MN.html
Here in 1839, in Crawford County, Wisconsin Territory, Joseph R. Brown, first settler of this valley, laid out the town of Dahcotah. The following year as a member of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature, Brown secured passage of a bill setting u…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTDD_the-wardens-house_Stillwater-MN.html
In 1849, the Governor of the new Territory of Minnesota, Alexander Ramsey, urged the Territorial Legislature to provide for a "proper and safe place of confinement" for prisoners of the territory. Because of Ramsey's request, the Legislature appro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FS_the-st-croix-river-valley-welcome-to-minnesota_Stillwater-MN.html
The St. Croix River Valley Forming a long stretch of the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin, the St. Croix is one of America's most scenic Wild Rivers. Its valley is sometimes referred to as the "New England of the West."
Along with the Bru…