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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QV_old-city-hall-bell_Canby-MN.html
The old City Hall was built in 1892. The City Hall bid was let for $5,324 to J.D. Carroll of Mankato, Minnesota. He ran short of materials and for a time there was a threat of court action but the matter was settled and in December the City Counc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CPD_ancient-exposed-rocks_Granite-Falls-MN.html
About 13,000 years ago, glacial melt water that collected in a basin named Glacial Lake Agassiz burst through a natural earthen dike creating a huge torrent of water that carved the Minnesota River Valley as we see it today. There are places along…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B8P_school-bell_Granite-Falls-MN.html
The first school building in east Granite Falls was a structure 20 by 30 feet and erected in 1873 at a cost of $1,500. The first teacher was C.E. Clark. Enrollment continued to grow and in the summer of 1879, a new school district was organized on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B6J_woodlake-battlefield-state-monument_Echo-MN.html
Northern side: To the memory of the men who here lost their lives in an engagement between Minnesota volunteer soldiers and the Sioux Indians Sept. 23, 1862. WOODLAKE BATTLEFIELD Eastern side: Anthony C. Collins · Richard H. McElroy …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B4K_the-wood-lake-battle_Echo-MN.html
THE WOOD LAKE BATTLE In mid-September, 1862, more than 1,600 soldiers commanded by Colonel Henry Sibley marched northwest from Fort Ridgely into the Minnesota River Valley with an aim to end the U.S.-Dakota War. Word of that movement reached the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B26_henry-hill-1829-1879_Granite-Falls-MN.html
[Yellow Medicine County logo]] HENRY HILL 1829~1879 1871 - Built dam for water power 1872 - Founded Granite Falls [photo of dam] Erected flour, grist, lumber mills in 1872 Gave free lots to secure settlers Established first mail route …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZ1_worlds-oldest-rock_Granite-Falls-MN.html
Site of some of the oldest exposed rock in the world. Geologists estimate this Granitic Gneiss was formed 3,800,000,000 years ago.Erected by the Yellow Medicine County Historical Society1975
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDJZ_the-hanley-falls-railroad-y_Hanley-Falls-MN.html
In 1901 the Supreme Court of the United States ordered the installation of a transfer track between the Great Northern Railroad, now the Burlington Northern, and the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad, now the Chicago and Northwestern. This facil…
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