This walking trail leads to a historic facility that is now Minnesota's premier artist retreat–the Anderson Center at Tower View. This 330-acre parcel includes an outdoor sculpture garden, scenic trails, and historic buildings. You are welcome to . . . — — Map (db m224583) HM
"The most beautiful prospect that imagination can form," wrote 18th century explorer Jonathan Carver about the view from Barn Bluff. "Verdant plains, fruitful meadows, and numerous islands abound with the most varied trees.... But above all, . . . — — Map (db m24816) HM
The construction of this building began in 1904 following an agreement in which the city of Red Wing provided trackage concessions and the railroad agreed to construct this depot and donate money toward construction of Levee Park. This building was . . . — — Map (db m49097) HM
This diverse landscape has always attracted a wide range of inhabitants. At one time, mammoths and mastodons roamed this area. Birds such as the marbled godwit and chestnut collared longspur once lived in the prairie. And people have inhabited this . . . — — Map (db m224645) HM
During the great ice ages the landscape of Minnesota was profoundly altered by continental glaciers in four major epochs of glaciation. In this area, as elsewhere, the closing stage of each epoch was characterized by the release of floods of . . . — — Map (db m45869) HM
Dedicated to those who gave their lives in service to their country.
[outline of Goodhue County]
Goodhue County Veterans Memorial · May 21, 1988 — — Map (db m52985) HM
Citizens of Red Wing have long sought convenient access to the summit of Mt. La Grange (Barn Bluff) to enjoy the impressive view of the Mississippi valley.
In 1889 local civic leader C.C. Webster promoted the construction of a path up the . . . — — Map (db m24890) HM
The benches on either side of this section contain thirty five of the steps which were removed from the original Kiwanis stairway. One hundred fourteen steps still remain where they were placed initially on the upper west end of the bluff.
This . . . — — Map (db m224652) HM
Military Roads
Thousands of immigrants and adventurers traveled to Minnesota Territory in the 1840s. They traveled by steamboat and humble wagon roads. Journeys could be difficult due to seasonal river conditions and the rough dirt trails. . . . — — Map (db m224746) HM
This bold bluff was a landmark for French explorers who named it Mt. La Grange for its resemblance to a large barn.
Some 10,000 years ago meltwater from the glaciers carved a deep channel in this area. Barn Bluff became an island in the . . . — — Map (db m24982) HM
Launched from Red Wing, the National Newspaper Association has been the voice and vehicle of grassroots American journalism for 100 years.
NNA was founded as the National Editorial Assn. but was renamed in 1965. Today it embraces . . . — — Map (db m46972) HM
A simple effort to showcase Minnesota's native trees.
This is an ecologically rich landscape. In this area one can find native prairies, old oak forests, high bluffs, steep ravines, rugged rock outcroppings, wetlands, spring-fed . . . — — Map (db m239590) HM
In 1885, T. H. Lewis mapped a mound group on a bluff top overlooking the confluence of the Cannon and Mississippi Rivers. Unlike other mound groups in the region, this set contained a flat-topped, rectangular mound. These types of mounds generally . . . — — Map (db m225107) HM
In Memory of the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
of the
Spanish American War, who Volunteered in the Cause of
Freedom, Patriotism, and Humanity.
Dedicated by the
Department of Minnesota Auxiliary
United . . . — — Map (db m52401) HM
Minnesota has lost 99 percent of its native prairies and 92 percent of its old-growth forests. This 13-acre parcel seeks to recover part of that original landscape.
Susan Windgrow - Prairie Island resident. . . . — — Map (db m239615) HM
This was the original site of a livery barn. In 1920, C.J. Ahler & Co. started one of the first Studebaker dealerships in Minnesota at this location. It was operated by Clark Randall and Donald Worden as the Worden–Crandall Auto & Electric Co. This . . . — — Map (db m224511) HM
Theodore B. Sheldon, prominent local grain merchant and business leader, bequeathed to the City of Red Wing half of his estate to be used for a public purpose. After his death in 1900, his trustees chose to construct the T.B. Sheldon Memorial . . . — — Map (db m47739) HM
The G.A. Carlson Lime Kiln, built in 1882 on the northeast end of Barn Bluff (Mt. LaGrange), is typical of approximately thirty such kilns in use in the Red Wing area during the period from 1870 to 1908. Gustavus Adolphus Carlson at one time . . . — — Map (db m184561) HM
On July 13, 1890 the steamer Sea Wing, heavily loaded with 215 passengers and crew, left the steamboat landing here for a Sunday excursion down the Mississippi River to Lake City.
The Sea Wing, based in Diamond Bluff, Wisconsin, . . . — — Map (db m49445) HM
William Colvill was born in New York state on April 5, 1830. As a young lawyer he moved to Red Wing in 1854, becoming the town's first city attorney.
On April 19, 1861 — one week after the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter — a . . . — — Map (db m48890) HM
