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| Minnesota (Winona County), Dresbach — Minnesota’s “Fashionable Tour” / Welcome to Minnesota | | | 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 countless fascinating forms.” Their destinations were the frontier town of St. Paul and the famous Falls of St. Anthony in what is now Minneapolis.
Made popular in the east by panorama painters, writers, and lecturers, the . . . — Map (db m8617) | | Minnesota (Winona County), Dresbach — Theodore Foss Memorial Highway | | | Dedicated to State Trooper
Corporal Theodore "Ted" Foss
1965–2000
Corporal Ted Foss was
killed August 31, 2000
on I-90 near Lewiston, Mn
while making a traffic stop — Map (db m8687) |
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