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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28H1_in-memory-of-the-first-swedish-settlers-in-minnesota_Marine-on-Saint-Croix-MN.html
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1850 1900
In memory of the First Swedish Settlers in Minnesota
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1850 - 1900
Oscar Roos, Carl Fernstrom och August Sansahl från Vestergötland, Sverige, bosatte sig å detta hemman omkring den 18 de Oktober 1850 och…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM117W_the-pineries-are-gone_Marine-on-St-Croix-MN.html
A Great Pine ForestThe St. Croix River valley's sandy loam soil is ideal for growing pine. In the 19th century its forests were filled with white pines. Many of them were two to three hundred years old, four to five feet in diameter, and stood up …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM113L_powerhouse-and-kiln_Marine-on-St-Croix-MN.html
Sawmills cut logs into rough boards. The boards were then planed and smoothed to emerge as finished lumber.To your left are the remains of the planing-mill powerhouse. The square stone at the bottom of the ruin once supported a 50-horsepower steam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10ST_boom-then-bust_Marine-on-St-Croix-MN.html
"From here, the first log in the race,Went forth to seek a dwelling place."
Harriet Bishop, Minnesota, Then and Now, 1869
The St. Croix River ranked second only to the Mississippi as a carrier of logs and lumber. The white pine logs from tre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10MF_technological-revolution_Marine-on-St-Croix-MN.html
"... a lonely and forgotten reminder of the hopes of men and of the lusty lumber industry which did much to build an expanding America."James Taylor Dunn, The St. Croix:Midwest Border River, 1979
The stone ruins before you include the foundatio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZQT_william-o-brien-state-park_Marine-on-St-Croix-MN.html
William O'Brien State Park was established in 1945 with a donation to the State of Minnesota of 180 acres by Alice O'Brien. This gift was given in memory of her father William O'Brien, who was a pioneer lumberman.
This marker is dedicated to Al…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYW1_minnesotas-first-commercial-sawmill_Marine-on-St-Croix-MN.html
Sawmilling began here on August 24, 1839, when the Marine Lumber Company cut its first pine log.In the autumn of 1838 two lumbermen from Marine, Illinois, David Hone and Lewis Judd, arrived in the St. Croix River valley, attracted by it's abundant…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUWG_the-marine-township-hall_Marine-on-St-Croix-MN.html
The Marine Township Hall was constructed in 1872 as a meeting hall and jail. The building was erected on property donated by Orange Walker. Its construction was financed by Morgan May who took the town's bonds for the necessary $2,000. Members of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUIZ_marine-mill-site_Marine-on-St-Croix-MN.html
One of Minnesota's first major industries was born here on August 24, 1839, when the slow, cumbersome up-and-down saw of the Marine Lumber Company cut the first commercial lumber in the state from trees felled in the rich white pine forests of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTYN_early-settlers-cabin_Marine-on-St-Croix-MN.html
Swedish immigrant Sven Anderson built this early settler's cabin in 1852; some of the cabin logs still show the marks from the axe, which squared them. Sven and his wife Stava raised three children in this cabin, and it was their home until 1869. …