This plot marks the site of the home of John Cook, pioneer settler, who with his wife Diantha J., and children Freddie W., Mary E., and John W., were murdered by Indians April 26, 1872. — — Map (db m227703) HM
Hamden Slough National Wildlife Refuge is named after the 800-acre Hamden Lake, drained in the early 1900's for agricultural development. Much of the rich prairie soil was also plowed for agriculture. A decline in wildlife populations followed. In . . . — — Map (db m170558)
This courthouse constructed by Becker County in cooperation with the Works Progress Administration of the Federal Works Agency S. L. Stolte • State Administrator Harry Phinney • District Manager W. R. Koester • District Engineer Albert . . . — — Map (db m209093) HM
This lake and the city located on its northern shore received its name from the French word “détroit,” meaning a narrow place in a lake and in this case referred to the bar which divides Little and Big Detroit Lakes. Today this can be seen about . . . — — Map (db m233589) HM
The great ice ages that began about one million years ago were characterized by the advance and recession of huge ice sheets over vast areas of North America. These continental glaciers, originating in Canada, moved southward, scraping up mantle . . . — — Map (db m252767) HM
Through woodland and prairie, along riverbanks and through sloughs, the mixed-blood American and Canadian buffalo hunters called Metis blazed trails with their oxen and squeaky-wheeled wooden carts. They carried buffalo robes and pemmican from . . . — — Map (db m252763) HM
You are traveling on one of the most scenic highways in Minnesota: Designated on May 26, 1999 as a state byway, the Lake Country Scenic Byway covers 67 miles of Minnesota State Highway 34 from Detroit Lakes to Park Rapids and Walker . . . — — Map (db m309297) HM
Height of Land Township, organized January 26, 1886, bears the name of the large lake known to the Otter Tail Pillager Band of Anishinaabeg as Ajawewesitagunsagaiigun — “lake where the portage is across a divide separating water which runs . . . — — Map (db m309197) HM
Bad Medicine Lake also called the Lake of the Valley, was originally known to the Ojibway Indians as Ga-wimbadjiwegamag (Lake lying in a mountain depression). Among the many stories about the name’s origin are legends of serpentine fish and . . . — — Map (db m207258) HM
This trail was used by early settlers and Indians to reach the maple sugar and wild rice campsite located at the north end of Tamarac Lake. It extended east to the Ottertail River and then branched to the south and north. The south branch followed . . . — — Map (db m226131) HM
Minnesota is one of the few states where the Red River Ox Cart was used extensively as a mode of transportation. From 1832 to 1862 the carts went back and forth between St Paul and the fur trading outposts at Pembina, ND and Fort Gary in Canada. . . . — — Map (db m232425) HM
This marker locates a part of the original trail which was cut out of the forest by the U.S. Army in 1868 to facilitate travel from Leech Lake to White Earth. Soldiers accompanied the paymasters along this road in the early days to provide . . . — — Map (db m8537) HM
The first Minnesota mission to be named for Saint Columba was built by James Lloyd Breck in 1852 at Gull Lake near the present-day Brainerd. It was the fourth Episcopal church established in Minnesota.
The initial group of Chippewa Indians . . . — — Map (db m207531) HM
