On Interstate 90 at milepost 222, 2.3 miles west of State Route 42.
Years ago, bison, Native Americans, and European settlers wore trails into the prairie grasses. By the 1880's many trails had become steel rails. Some trails became dirt roads, traveled by wagons, sleighs, and horse-drawn coaches, moving people and . . . — — Map (db m179008) HM
Near Westbound Rest Area (Interstate 90 at milepost 222), 3.5 miles west of State Route 42, on the right when traveling west.
Minnesota's doctors and the institutions they built have played a distinguished role in the medical revolution of the past 150 years. Both the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota Medical School have pioneered treatment techniques that have . . . — — Map (db m178478) HM
On 3rd Avenue Northwest 0.2 miles west of County Road 18.
During the summer of 1858 gold was discovered in the bed of the Zumbro River at Rochester and near Oronoco. The news created a local sensation. On July 1, 1858, the Rochester Democrat reported: "The excitement in reference to the gold . . . — — Map (db m178512) HM
Near Mayo Park Drive Southeast east of 6th Avenue Southeast, on the left when traveling north.
August 27, 1961, marked the centennial observance of the founding of the M E A. This organization, with its more than 28,000 classroom teachers and administrators and with its headquarters in St. Paul, was formed at Rochester during the early days . . . — — Map (db m196352) HM
On 2nd Street SW at 4th Avenue SW, on the right when traveling west on 2nd Street SW.
Built in 1862, during the Civil War, eight years after the founding of
Rochester (1854), the primitive "chapel" measured only 27 by 55 feet.
It was built on the original plat of bricks made in Rochester. Two lots
were given by George Head, . . . — — Map (db m147342) HM
Near 1st Avenue Northwest at 2nd Street Northwest, on the right when traveling south.
In 1856, W. D. Lowery donated his cow pasture to establish Rochester's first park, Central Park. In the 1800s Central Park was the gathering place for picnics, band concerts and ice cream socials with a majestic fountain as the centerpiece.
In . . . — — Map (db m196421) HM
On 4th Street SW west of 1st Avenue SW, on the right when traveling east.
Conley Maass Downs Bldg. built 1900 has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m146895) HM
On 3rd Street Southwest just east of 1st Avenue Southwest, on the left when traveling west.
On this site in 1865 Dr. William Worrall Mayo constructed his first (and only) dedicated medical office building in Rochester. Later destroyed by fire, it was described as “a neat and pleasant office” (Rochester City Post, June 10, 1865). . . . — — Map (db m306900) HM
Near West Circle Drive (County Road 22 SW) 1.8 miles east of U.S. 52, on the right when traveling south.
Hadley Valley School was built in Olmsted County in approximately 1885 and is preserved here as a symbol of the pioneer's desire that his children have an education.
Moving of the school has been made possible by Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Lowry in . . . — — Map (db m179019) HM
Near West Silver Lake Drive Northeast east of North Broadway Avenue (U.S. 63).
Rochester was built on a floodplain created by the South Fork of the Zumbro River and its tributaries. The first recorded flood in Rochester was in 1855 and historic floods occurred in 1866, 1882, and 1908. Rochester's worst flood happened in 1978. . . . — — Map (db m178691) HM
On East Silver Lake Drive 1.8 miles north of 12th Street Southeast (U.S. 14), on the right when traveling south.
The diversified scenery of Minnesota - of which the Rochester area is one phase - is due to the location of the state in the approximate center of the continent. Situated midway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Hudson Bay and the Gulf of . . . — — Map (db m178698) HM
Near East Silver Lake Drive 1.7 miles north of 12th Street Southeast (U.S. 14), on the right when traveling south.
Silver Lake is a reservoir that was created in the 1930s by hand-digging a basin to hold water and then constructing a dam to back-up river water. It was built as a work relief project, providing work for over 400 unemployed men.
The land on . . . — — Map (db m178778) HM
On East Silver Lake Drive Northeast 0.1 miles south of 14th Street Northeast, on the left when traveling east.
Captain Peter S. Mackey
Station 1 July 23, 1942
Firefighter Stanley J. O'Brien
Squad 1 Silver Lake December 24, 1953
Motor Operator Ambrose J. Riley
Ladder 1 Silver Lake December 24, 1953
Motor Operator Otis D. Ondler . . . — — Map (db m196425) HM
Near 4th Street NW east of 10th Avenue SW, on the left when traveling east.
The land on which this monument stands, consisting of a tract shown in the plat hereon, was presented to the city of Rochester, for use as a public park by Drs. William J and Charles H Mayo on June 15, 1907. — — Map (db m203229) HM
On Mayowood Road Southwest 0.6 miles west of Mayowood Hills Drive Southwest, on the left when traveling west.
A great love of nature led Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic, and his wife Edith (Graham) Mayo to purchase a small red brick house and 340 acres in 1907. Their growing family and desire to preserve the natural beauty of the . . . — — Map (db m196339) HM
On Soldiers Field Drive Southwest 0.3 miles east of Broadway Avenue South (U.S. 63), on the right when traveling east.
Near this marker on August 8 1934, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated a bronze plaque in behalf of the American Legion to Doctors William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo. Speaking before 75,000 people, the President of the United . . . — — Map (db m179021) HM
On 2nd Street SW at 14th Avenue SW, on the right when traveling east on 2nd Street SW.
In 1889 the Sisters of Saint Francis, under the leadership of
Mother Alfred, opened Saint Marys Hospital, the first hospital in
southern Minnesota, to meet the health needs of Rochester, needs
brought into sharp focus by the destructive tornado . . . — — Map (db m203231) HM
On 6th Avenue Southeast at 3rd Street Southeast, on the right when traveling south on 6th Avenue Southeast.
Twenty-five years after the deaths of the Doctors William James and Charles Horace Mayo the citizens of Rochester fittingly observed the Mayo Centennial Year - 1964 - to commemorate the approximate 100th anniversary of the birth dates of the Doctors . . . — — Map (db m196356) HM
On West Circle Drive (County Road 22 SW) 1.7 miles west of U.S. 52, on the right when traveling south.
The Olmsted County Historical Society
was organized in Rochester on January 25, 1926. The first officers were: Burt W. Eaton, President; Mrs. Jay E. Benedict, Vice-president; Lester J. Fiegel, Treasurer; Henry O. Christiansen, Secretary. For . . . — — Map (db m178785) HM
Near West Circle Drive (County Road 22 SW) 1.8 miles east of U.S. 52, on the right when traveling south.
This humble little cabin was constructed in the summer of 1862 by Irish immigrant William Dee and a group of neighbors. The cabin was built on lot six of block four of the Head and McMahon's Addition, now West 6th Street. William's wife, Bridget, . . . — — Map (db m178996) HM
On North Main Street (U.S. 63) just north of 3rd Street Northwest, on the left when traveling north.
Richard Warren Sears (1863-1914), cofounder of Sears Roebuck and Company, was born in Stewartville and lived in this house from 1863 to 1869. Richard Sears was the son of James Sears — a pioneer Stewartville blacksmith. In 1869 Sears began his . . . — — Map (db m235257) HM
