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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9ZL_the-big-woods_Lakeville-MN.html
When the first explorers came to what became Minnesota, they found a land with three very different personalities. To the north were the great forests of white pine and other conifers that later attracted armies of lumberjacks and made Minnesota a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9Z0_bloomington-town-hall_Minneapolis-MN.html
The Bloomington Town Hall was built twenty feet from this site in 1892 on land given to the Township by the Baillif family. The building was moved to the current location in the 1930's in the first of a number of remodelings the building has exper…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM97O_dakota-sioux-memorial-1862_Mankato-MN.html
The last act of the Minnesota Dakota (Sioux) War took place here in Mankato on December 26, 1862 when thirty-eight Dakota Indians died in a mass execution on this site.
The Dakota War was a culmination of years of friction between Dakota and wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM94M_ho-chunk-winnebago_Mankato-MN.html
Through treaty negotiations, the Ho-Chunk or Winnebago moved their homes to Blue Earth County in 1855, and by 1863 they were gone. Parts of what would become Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois had been their homeland for centuries. European explore…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8A4_sandstone-area-veterans-memorial_Sandstone-MN.html
In honor and in memory of all men and women who served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM869_elizabeth-r-snelling_Worthington-MN.html
Elizabeth R.SnellingThe first whitechildborn in MinnesotaSeptember 1820October 1821Erected by the children ofFort Snelling, Minn.May 30, 1926
Reinterred1940
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6DR_minnesotas-roads-welcome-to-minnesota_Glenville-MN.html
Minnesota's Roads. "A perfect highway is a thing of beauty and joy forever," enthused a speaker at Minnesota's first "Good Roads" convention in 1893. "It blesses every home by which it passes."
Early in the 1890s, even before the automobile age…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CV_hormel_Austin-MN.html
Memorial Day · May 27, 1991In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Geo. A. Hormel & Company, employees and retirees join together to salute its visionary founder, George A. Hormel and his gifted son, Jay C. Hormel. Together they instil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5HF_theodore-foss-memorial-highway_Dakota-MN.html
Dedicated to State Trooper Corporal Theodore "Ted" Foss1965-2000
Corporal Ted Foss waskilled August 31, 2000on I-90 near Lewiston, Mnwhile making a traffic stop
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5FN_minnesotas-fashionable-tour-welcome-to-minnesota_Dakota-MN.html
Minnesota's "Fashionable Tour." In the years between 1835 and 1860, steamboats from St. Louis and the Illinois river towns of Rock Island and Galena carried hundreds of tourists up the Mississippi River past "a thousand bluffs which tower in count…