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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRKA_president-lyndon-b-johnson_Minneapolis-MN.html
President Lyndon B. Johnson, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, and Governor Karl Rolvaag enjoy the spray from Minnehaha Falls. On that day in 1964, however, Minneapolis was experiencing a drought. In order to create the beautiful display of the falls pi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRB5_1-main-entrance-minnehaha-lower-glen_Minneapolis-MN.html
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board welcomes you to Minnehaha Park. The park consists of two levels: The upper level is maintained as an open picnicking area. Many of the city's traditional festivals such as Svenskarnas Dag are held here. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRAK_geology-of-minnesota_Minneapolis-MN.html
Near Fort Snelling, 10,000 years ago, melt water from the Wisconsin glacier was discharged through the Mississippi River and plunged over a ledge of Platteville limestone into a gorge cut chiefly in the white St. Peter sandstone. The undercutting …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR8O_the-pillsbury-a-mill_Minneapolis-MN.html
The Pillsbury A Mill, built of Platteville limestone, was the world's largest flour mill when it was completed in 1881. The design by LeRoy S. Buffington is considered a classic of industrial architecture, and the interior of the mill boasted stat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ0C_como-harriet-streetcar-line_Minneapolis-MN.html
For 74 years this transit railway carried passengers to downtown jobs, to University of Minnesota classes, and to picnics and concerts on the shores of Lake Harriet.
Steam passenger trains of the Minneapolis, Lyndale & Minnetonka Railway first…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPQN_joseph-n-nicollet_Minneapolis-MN.html
Nicollet Island bears the name of a French scholar and scientist who explored the headwaters of the Mississippi for the US government in 1836. Accompanied by some Ojibway friends and two hired voyageurs, Joseph Nicollet camped by the falls for sev…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPC1_geology-of-minnesota_Minneapolis-MN.html
The continental glaciers spreading over Minnesota during the great ice ages brought vast quantities of rock material from the north to be dumped indiscriminately during the recession of the ice. Old river valleys were filled and belts of hills wer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPB1_richard-chute-square_Minneapolis-MN.html
The University of Minnesota's first building, a preparatory school, was located on this site from 1851 until the University moved to its present location in 1855.
When the city of Minneapolis acquired the land for a park in 1903, it was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP9P_the-ard-godfrey-house_Minneapolis-MN.html
Built in 1848, the Ard Godfrey House is the earliest frame house still standing in Minneapolis. An example of Greek Revival architecture, it originally occupied a site in the vicinity of Main and Second Streets Southeast.
Ard Godfrey, a millwri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIOU_beneath-the-surface_Minneapolis-MN.html
This 1893 map shows the system of tunnels that ran under the West Side Milling District-part of the complex waterworks that brought energy from the 50-foot drop of the falls into the mills. Water from theriver above the falls flowed through gates …