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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTSY_lamberts-landing_St-Paul-MN.html
Since the advent of steamboats in 1812, this landing has served as a tie-up location for countless numbers of commercial river vessels, from paddle-wheelers to tugs. From here, thousands of barges can be seen passing by each year, quietly ferrying…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSDK_fountain-cave_St-Paul-MN.html
Fountain Cave, a landmark known as early as 1811, was named for the sparkling creek that flowed from its mouth and continued some 375 feet through a ravine to join the Mississippi River about 140 feet downstream from this marker. The cave attracte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSCS_rice-park_St-Paul-MN.html
The scene of circuses, celebrations, and concerts, and seven years older than New York's famous Central Park, this land was designated a "public square" in 1849 by John R. Irvine, a territorial pioneer, and Henry M. Rice, territorial delegate and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSCR_the-saint-paul-public-library_St-Paul-MN.html
On September 7, 1882, the Saint Paul Common Council passed a resolution "to establish and maintain a free public library and reading room." As a result, Saint Paul's first public library opened on the second floor of Ingersoll Hall, Kellog…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSCQ_the-james-j-hill-reference-library_St-Paul-MN.html
The Hill Reference Library opened in 1921 as a living gift to the people of Saint Paul from railroad pioneer James J. Hill. By building the Great Northern Railway's transcontinental line to Seattle in 1893, Hill played a central role in the settli…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS4F_the-new-york-life-eagle_St-Paul-MN.html
In 1890, architect Stanford White gave the commission for The New York Life Eagle to Augustus Saint-Gaudens on behalf of The New York Life Insurance Company. Augustus sketched its conceptual form and the sculpture was carved in marble by his broth…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS4B_summit-lookout-park_St-Paul-MN.html
This park was originally the site of the Carpenter's Hotel, a towering wooden structure of the late 1850s, that sat on the east corner of the triangular lot defined by Summit Avenue, Ramsey Hill and the river bluff. The Victorian building featured…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNSS_summit-selby-neighborhood_St-Paul-MN.html
This area has long been a meeting place of people and ideas. In the 1850s two major overland routes converged just a few blocks from here. By the 1880s the district was a bustling residential area for both the wealthy and the immigrant. Today the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLYH_st-paul-civil-war-memorial_St-Paul-MN.html
To perpetuate the memory of the Union Soldiers and Sailors of the War of 1861 — 1865 · Their patriotism inspired unquestioning devotion · Their valor was attested on hard-won battlefields · Their suffering and sacrifice …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML1R_james-j-hill-the-james-j-hill-house_St-Paul-MN.html
James J. Hill"Most men who have really lived here have had, in some shape, their great adventure. This railway is mine," wrote James J. Hill to the Great Northern Railway employees upon his retirement in 1912. Throughout his long working life Hill…