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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDUZ_trotman-folding-stock-anchor_Duluth-MN.html
Conventional ship's anchor used from about 1870 to 1910, from the Whaleback steamer Thomas Wilson, sunk a half mile outside Duluth Piers. Recovered in 1973 by the U.S.C.G. Cutter Woodrush with divers Elmer Engman, Dave Anderson, Dan Goman and Paul…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDUX_the-laurentian-divide_Angora-MN.html
The Laurentian Divide separates the watershed of streams that flow north to the Arctic Ocean from the watershed of streams that flow south through the Great lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. Where you are standing the divide is formed by a prominent ar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDUW_the-fires-of-autumn-1918_Saginaw-MN.html
Marker Front:The Cloquet-Moose Lake forest fire of October 12-13, 1918, which almost reached this location, was one of the most destructive forest fires in Minnesota's recorded history. Like other major fires, this one took place on cutover land t…
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD0Z_pond-mission_Shakopee-MN.html
These foundations mark the site of a two-story frame building erected by the Reverend Samuel W. Pond in 1847. It served as a Presbyterian mission to the Shakopee Sioux, and as Pond's home until his death in 1891.
An eight-foot stockade enclosed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD0A_izatys_Onamia-MN.html
In this vicinity stood the grand Sioux village of Izatys where Duluth planted the French arms on July 2, 1679.
The settlement was visited by Father Hennepin in 1680. About 1750 the Chippewa moving westward from Lake Superior, captured the villa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBGE_the-first-mahkato-memorial-wacipi_Mankato-MN.html
This memorial is to honor those Dakota who created the First Mahkato Wacipi in 1972.
The Wacipi is to remember the thirty-eight Dakota executed in Mankato in 1862 and to create a spirit of reconciliation between the people of Mankato and the Da…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBAQ_rodney-j-putz_Bloomington-MN.html
In memory of Rodney J. Putz 1939 - 1994 This living garden has been planted in memory of Rodney J. Putz. Visionary, Entrepreneur, Leader, Teacher, Mentor, Friend, Brother, Father, Husband, Great Human Being, and key to the success of Mall of Am…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBA5_john-harrington-stevens-house_Minneapolis-MN.html
Built in 1850, this was the first house on the west bank of the Mississippi, located at Saint Anthony Falls near the present-day Minneapolis Post Office.
John H. Stevens received permission to occupy the site, a part of the Fort Snelling milit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBA0_the-prairie_Minneapolis-MN.html
A Sea of Grass
In its early days Fort Snelling was surrounded by a sea of head-high grass. The vast Minnesota prairie was broken only by small groves of trees—willows, cottonwoods, and oaks that grew near creeks, lakes, and marshes.
Ea…