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Entries Containing All of the Phrases «dakota county» AND «minnesota»

This list will also include matches for inflectional* forms of the words.
 
By K. Linzmeier, May 15, 2013
Nininger Historic Site Marker
RANKED BY RELEVANCE
1 ► Minnesota, Dakota County, Hastings — Nininger Historic Site —
On 124th Street East at Historic Donnelly Avenue / Ivanhoe Way, on the right when traveling west on 124th Street East.
On this historic site, the SW corner of Block 67 of the Nininger City plat, was located a building that served the citizens for a century and a half. Construction began in March, 1858, when the Nininger Chapter of the Independent Order of Good . . . — — Map (db m65618) HM

2 ► Minnesota, Hennepin County, Minneapolis, Saint Anthony Main — A Complex Family Tree — Xcel Energy owns and operates the Hennepin Island hydroelectric plant. —
Near SE Main Street.
The complexity of the company's history reflects the transformation of the electric power industry since the late nineteenth century as smaller utilities were consolidated into larger ones. Created in 2000 by the merger of Northern States . . . — — Map (db m235069) HM

3 ► Minnesota, Dakota County, Hastings — Hastings, Minnesota — Beginnings —
On 2nd Street at U.S. 61, on the right when traveling east on 2nd Street.
A natural harbor on the great Mississippi River highway led to the early development of Hastings. The river brought explorers, traders, soldiers, speculators, businessmen, and settlers. It carried from here the products of the prairies and forests. . . . — — Map (db m199536) HM

4 ► Minnesota, Dakota County, Hastings — Dakota County Courthouse — 1869-1870 —
Near 3rd Street East at Vermillion Street, on the right when traveling east.
In 1978 this property was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m211228) HM
5 ► Minnesota, Dakota County, Mendota — A Great River's Road / Mendota, the Meeting Place —
On Sibley Memorial Highway (State Highway 13) south of D Street, on the right when traveling south.
A National Scenic Byway The Great River Road is the longest scenic byway in the nation, stretching nearly 3,000 miles through ten states from the Mississippi River's headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. For thousands of years, the . . . — — Map (db m199537) HM
6 ► Minnesota, Dakota County, Mendota — Paper Towns & Other Imaginary Worlds / Frontier Fortunes and Mississippi Mansions —
On Sibley Memorial Highway (State Highway 13) south of D Street.
The history of Minnesota is replete with stories of boomtowns becoming ghost towns. Sometimes their demise was caused by national or historical shifts in markets, such as the fading of the fur trade or the bottoming out of the wheat market. Other . . . — — Map (db m199637) HM
7 ► North Dakota, Traill County, Hillsboro — Nodak Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. —
On South Main Street just south of West Caledonia Avenue, on the left when traveling south.
Nodak Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc., during North Dakota’s Centennial year, commemorates the pioneers of rural electrification and the community leaders who dared dream of a better way of life in the stark days of 1935 to 1940. As the State . . . — — Map (db m209452) HM

8 ► Minnesota, Hennepin County, Fort Snelling — River Valleys Take Shape / A Strategic Advantage / Making a Safe Landing — Fort Snelling State Park — Where Rivers and People Come Together —
Near the Minnehaha Trail north of Snelling Lake Road, on the right when traveling north.
River Valleys Take Shape The two river valleys that meet here were carved thousands of years ago by water flowing from glaciers in the north. Glacial River Warren drained Glacial Lake Agassiz cutting through debris and bedrock to form the . . . — — Map (db m237601) HM
 
    Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
 
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