“Grand Old Lady of the Prairie"
Florence Cook Roefer (1913-2000) was an early leader in preserving these rock carvings and the surrounding prairie. As the first site manager of Jeffers Petroglyphs, Florence nurtured 33 acres of . . . — — Map (db m140823) HM
This outcropping is an “erosional high”-rock
smoothed off by glaciers.
Continental glaciers advanced and retreated across this region many times in the last million years, before leaving for good about 12,000 years ago. . . . — — Map (db m140824) HM
About 14,000 years ago this landscape was covered with ice.
When the ice melted, an open parkland dotted with black spruce developed. After a period of warming and drying, forests of oak and elm replaced the spruce. People began living . . . — — Map (db m140820) HM
What are those fence posts doing in the middle of the prairie?
They used to mark the edge of a farm field. In 1974 the Minnesota Historical Society planted a few grass varieties on 50 acres of cropland, initiating one of the first . . . — — Map (db m140804) HM
Prairie fires set by lightning or by people were common in this region.
Fortunately, most prairie plants are long-lived perennials with deep, extensive root systems. Their ability to produce vigorous new shoots below the soil's . . . — — Map (db m140822) HM
People hunting game most likely traveled this ridge, which provided a dry route above the lake-dotted prairie for thousands of years.
The earliest inhabitants of this region hunted woolly mammoths and musk-ox. Beginning with the . . . — — Map (db m140821) HM
On 10th Street west of 3rd Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior Cottonwood County Courthouse 1904 — — Map (db m157788) HM
On Lakeview Avenue at 6th Street, on the right when traveling north on Lakeview Avenue.
All Gave Some
Some Gave All
All veterans are honored and remembered by the
Windom Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #3844
Granite monument:
La Grange Post No. 79.
61 G.A.R. 65
Women's Relief Corps
61 No. 36. . . . — — Map (db m234289) WM
On 10th Street west of 3rd Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
Windom High School Graduate • 1935 University of Minnesota • 1935-1939 Green Bay Packers • 1939-1941 Voted: Minnesota’s MVP • 1938 All American Athlete • 1939 Green Bay Hall of Fame • 1942 — — Map (db m157782) HM
