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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGH9_barn-bluff_Red-Wing-MN.html
"The most beautiful prospect that imagination can form," wrote 18th century explorer Jonathan Carver about the view from Barn Bluff. "Verdant plains, fruitful meadows, and numerous islands abound with the most varied trees.... But above all, reach…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFDK_national-farmers-bank-of-owatonna_Owatonna-MN.html
Banker Carl Bennett wanted more than a prominent new building to house his family's business. He wanted a work of art. Bennett's search for an architect led him in 1906 to Louis Sullivan, one of the country' most inventive designers. Together they…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFBU_rock-island-railway-station-1901_Owatonna-MN.html
Once on this site there stood a beautiful red brick and limestone railway station that was part of the great Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway System. It was a stately building that served our community and the Rock Island System proudly fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF2K_oakwood-cemetery-w-r-c-memorial_Austin-MN.html
In memory of our Soldiers and Sailors 1861 - 1865
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMECK_bolles-flour-mill_Afton-MN.html
About 1843, six years before Minnesota became a territory, Lemuel Bolles erected on this creek the first commercial flour mill in the Minnesota country. Bolles salvaged wood from the shore of Lake St. Croix and carried it on his back to the mill s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME8Z_amos-owen-garden-of-american-indian-horticulture_Mankato-MN.html
Philosophy.Amos Owen was a Dakota elder and spiritual leader who wanted to preserve and restore traditional Dakota beliefs and practices. He believed that the suppression of Indian peoples had led to many parts of the culture being almost forgotte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDV4_pettingills-wonderful-water_Minneapolis-MN.html
A natural spring flows from the rock at the base of Hennepin Bluff below this spot. According to tradition the iron-red mud at the spring provided pigment for Native Americans. White settlers of the 1850s believed the water had medicinal qualities…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDV3_portaging-around-the-falls_Minneapolis-MN.html
For untold generations of Indian people the Mississippi River was an important canoe route. To pass around the falls, the Dakota (Sioux) and Ojibway (Chippewa) used a well-established portage trail. Starting at a landing below the site now occupie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDV2_the-stone-arch-bridge_Minneapolis-MN.html
In 1879 St. Paul railroad magnate James J. Hill opened his "Manitoba line" to the Canadian border, linking the wheat fields of the Red River Valley with the flour mills of Minneapolis. To improve railroad access at the falls he built this 2,100-fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDV1_father-hennepin-bluffs_Minneapolis-MN.html
This was the site from which Father Louis Hennepin, the Franciscan Priest, first viewed the Falls of St. Anthony in June of 1680. He named the falls after his patron saint St. Anthony of Padua.
The famous waterfall was responsible for the birth…