On 68th Street Northwest (County Road 101) 0.8 miles south of 180th Avenue Northwest (County Highway 40), on the right when traveling south.
In 1879 this village of Jericho was established in the historic Norway Lake settlement, 20 years after the first Norwegian immigrants arrived. A general store with a post office, a blacksmith shop, a creamery, and other businesses prospered in . . . — — Map (db m78215) HM
The Laurentian Divide separates the watershed of streams that flow north to the Arctic Ocean from the watershed of streams that flow south through the Great lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. Where you are standing the divide is formed by a prominent . . . — — Map (db m183138) HM
Near State Highway 61, on the left when traveling north.
Minnesota's Northern Border
Determining, surveying, and marking Minnesota’s border with Canada took 142 years and left the state with a tag end called the Northwest Angle standing isolated and alone on the Canadian side of Lake of the . . . — — Map (db m206879) HM
Near Interstate 35 at milepost 1, on the right when traveling north.
Minnesota's Roads. "A perfect highway is a thing of beauty and joy forever," enthused a speaker at Minnesota's first "Good Roads" convention in 1893. "It blesses every home by which it passes."
Early in the 1890s, even before the automobile . . . — — Map (db m9911) HM
Near U.S. 59 (State Highway 60) 0.8 miles north of 300th Street (County Highway 6), on the right when traveling north.
Welcome to Minnesota (marker east side) • • • Known to her citizens as the North Star State or the Gopher State, Minnesota has never claimed to be the Land of the Giants. But two famous American giants do hail from Minnesota. The giant . . . — — Map (db m157792) HM
Near Interstate 35 at milepost 249, on the left when traveling north.
Minnesota’s Seaport. More than three billion tons of iron ore, along with millions of tons of grain, lumber, fish, and coal, have passed through the Duluth-Superior harbor since the beginning of Minnesota’s Iron Age. The first ore from the rich . . . — — Map (db m3094) HM
Near Interstate 90 at milepost 275, on the right when traveling west.
Minnesota’s “Fashionable Tour.” In the years between 1835 and 1860, steamboats from St. Louis and the Illinois river towns of Rock Island and Galena carried hundreds of tourists up the Mississippi River past “a thousand bluffs . . . — — Map (db m8617) HM
On High Street south of Canal Street, on the left when traveling north.
The Westerly Band is the oldest non-military musical organization in continuous service in the United States. It was established in 1852, but many members left to fight in the Civil War. Eight original members revived the Westerly Band in 1863 in . . . — — Map (db m226814) HM
Of all the geological agents which have played a part in shaping the face of Minnesota, the most overwhelming and powerful one is glacial ice. At least four times during the last million years, continental glaciers have spread over the state . . . — — Map (db m101379) HM
Near State Highway 210, 3.9 miles east of State Highway 45, on the right when traveling east.
This point overlooks the St. Louis River Valley. The steeply inclined rocks in the river channel upstream are alternating beds of slates and graywackers of the Thompson Formation thousands of feet thick.
. . . — — Map (db m44627) HM
On Chaska Boulevard (County Highway 61) 0.3 miles west of North Hickory Street (County Road 140), on the right when traveling west.
By 1804 Jean B. Faribault was trading in furs for the Northwest Company near the "Little Rapids" of the Minnesota River, 5 miles south of this point, and in this vicinity. His fur post of 1824 on the site of Chaska became the nucleus for the first . . . — — Map (db m41051) HM
On State Highway 200, 0.3 miles east of County Route 165, on the left when traveling east.
When a federal marshal with about 100 troops of the 3rd Infantry tried to arrest the Chippewa Chief Bugonaygeshig at Sugar Point opposite here on the northeast shore of the lake, a sharp fight occurred October 5, 1898. The whites lost 7 killed and . . . — — Map (db m124726) HM
The potholes at the St. Croix Dalles have their origins in a tale of fire and ice. They are carved in a dark volcanic rock called basalt, which erupted as lava 1.1 billion years ago. This basalt is related to lava flows that line the North Shore of . . . — — Map (db m46434) HM
Near Viking Trail (U.S. 10) at 5th Street, on the right when traveling east.
Toward the close of the last or Wisconsin stage of glaciation about 10,000 years ago, the ice front receded from central Iowa toward the north and, in the latitude of Browns Valley, crossed the continental divide between the Mississippi River and . . . — — Map (db m233564) HM
On Interstate 94 at milepost 1 at 20th Street, on the right when traveling east on Interstate 94.
The fertile areas along both banks of the Red River of the North were once the bed of a huge lake known to geologists as Glacial Lake Agassiz. When the last glacier retreated and the lake slowly drained some 9,000 years ago, the plain left behind . . . — — Map (db m156984) HM
On Main Park Drive (County Road 38) 0.9 miles south of Bearpaw Lane, on the right when traveling south.
The diversified scenery of Minnesota- of which the Itasca park 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 m232172)
Near County Road 117, 0.3 miles south of County Road 122.
The name "Itasca" was coined specifically from the Latin words "Veritas caput" -- literally meaning "true head" -- by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in 1832. Led by Ozawindib, an Ojibwe guide who knew the upper reaches of the Mississippi River and its . . . — — Map (db m71470) HM
On State Highway 371, 0.1 miles north of Seagull Road Northwest, on the right when traveling north.
Toward the close of the Wisconsin stage of glaciation about 12,000 years ago, the waning lobe of the ice sheet in the Brainerd area retreated westward, leaving in its wake many stagnant ice blocks which had become separated from the main ice field. . . . — — Map (db m155678) HM
On Ferry Road, 0.2 miles south of Minnesota Highway 371, on the right when traveling south.
The establishment of Fort Ripley in 1848 represents the U.S. government’s effort to establish control on the northern frontier. Construction began on the west bank of the Mississippi River across from this point a year before Minnesota became a . . . — — Map (db m43935) HM
On Butler Avenue (County Highway 4) at North Concord Street (State Highway 156) on Butler Avenue.
Here on the Mendota Trail from 1839 to 1852 stood the Sioux village of the Little Crow family. An attempted Chippewa attack in 1842 precipitated the Battle of Kaposia across the river. After the Treaty of Mendota in 1851 the band moved up the . . . — — Map (db m31186) HM
On Interstate 94 at milepost 97 near State Highway 27, on the right when traveling east.
Lying at the center of the North American continent, Minnesota embraces three great watersheds -- areas of land from which all surface water eventually flows into a single stream. From Minnesota's watersheds, water runs of in three directions to . . . — — Map (db m156985) HM
On West Nokomis Street (County Road 82) at 2nd Avenue West, on the right when traveling east on West Nokomis Street.
Osakis was one of the stops on the Burbank Minnesota Stage Company Line to the Red River, established in the spring of 1859 upon the opening of the Fort Abercrombie Military Road. During the Sioux outbreak of 1862 the maintenance of this line of . . . — — Map (db m157797) HM
Near Great River Road (State Highway 61 / 63) at County 2 Boulevard (County Road 2), on the right when traveling north.
On the shore of Lake Pepin just north of here a French expedition commanded by LaPerriere and accompanied by two Jesuits in September 1727 built a substantial log fort and the mission of St. Michael the Archangel. The post was occupied periodically . . . — — Map (db m45242) HM
Near East 5th Street, 0.5 miles east of Bluff Street, on the left when traveling east.
"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
On Church Street south of University Avenue SE, on the left when traveling south.
The Armory Building
The University of Minnesota opened in 1869, assisted by federal subsidies and with military instruction mandated by the Land Grant Act of 1862. Since 1884, the buildings used for military instruction have met additional . . . — — Map (db m176660) HM
On State Highway 7, on the right when traveling east.
Named for Charles W. Christmas, first county surveyor of Hennepin County, elected in 1852, who platted the original town site of Minneapolis for John H. Stevens and Franklin Steele. This lake and Lake Minnetonka now occupy what in pre-glacial times . . . — — Map (db m71571) HM
On 160th Street Northeast at State Highway 23, on the right when traveling west on 160th Street Northeast.
What is believed to be one of the last pitched battles between the Ojibwe and Dakota ended near this marker about 1860. Some Dakota hunters found a party of Ojibwe encroaching on Dakota grounds. They attacked, killing several Ojibwe and driving the . . . — — Map (db m78413) HM
On 120th Street Southeast (County Road 134) 3.4 miles south of 15th Avenue Northeast (U.S. 12), on the right when traveling south.
Kandiyohi Town Site Corporation was organized in 1856, with John Swainson as president. By October of that year, the town site had been surveyed. David Charlton's plat indicates a large central area reserved for the State Capitol with a much . . . — — Map (db m78239) HM
On 120th Street Southeast (County Road 134) 3.9 miles south of 15th Avenue Northeast (U.S. 12), on the right when traveling south.
Mrs. Carrie (Pehrson) Johnson, the first white person buried in what is now Kandiyohi County, came here with her husband, John, and six month old son in the fall of 1857, from Sweden. She died in April 1858, and was buried near her new house. After . . . — — Map (db m78311) HM
On County Highway 8 north of Big Kandi Drive (County Road 132), on the right when traveling north.
The United States Army responded to the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862 by carrying out federal government security policies of removing remaining noncombatant Dakota people and pursuing combatants while protecting settled areas. In August 1863, Jesse V. . . . — — Map (db m78292) HM
On 140th Avenue Northeast, 0.5 miles west of State Highway 23, on the right when traveling west.
The Dakota nation established campsites in Kandiyohi County to hunt and fish. Little Crow's campsite located here was used for that purpose. Little Crow was born Taoyateduta about 1810 in the Mdewakanton Dakota village of Kaposia. Little Crow later . . . — — Map (db m78384) HM
On County Highway 9, 0.6 miles south of 113th Avenue Northeast (County Highway 10), on the right when traveling south.
In May 1859, Olof Olson Haugen, his wife Bergeret, and son Frederick homesteaded here in section 32, Dovre Township. Over the next three years, the Haugen family diligently worked to establish their new life; building shelter, raising crops and . . . — — Map (db m77770) HM
Near 113th Avenue Northeast (County Highway 10) at County Highway 9, on the left when traveling west.
Ojibwe and Dakota nations had a long history of conflict in what would become Minnesota. Both Dakota and Ojibwe people contended for the control of the abundant natural resources in the future Kandiyohi County area that played an economic role in . . . — — Map (db m78028) HM
On 30th Street Northwest (County Highway 5) 0.4 miles south of 37th Avenue Northwest (County Road 92), on the right when traveling south.
In May 1859, Olof Olson Haugen, his wife Bergeret, and son Frederick homesteaded here in section 32, Dovre Township. Over the next three years, the Haugen family diligently worked to establish their new life; building shelter, raising crops and . . . — — Map (db m77735) HM
On North Shore Drive (County Highway 61) 0.8 miles south of Old North Shore Road (County Road 290), on the left when traveling south.
This town site, named after President Buchanan, was laid out in October 1856. From September 1857 until May 1859 the place though little less than wilderness, was the seat of the U.S. Land Office for the Northeastern District of Minnesota. After the . . . — — Map (db m43806) HM
Near Split Rock Lighthouse Road, 0.5 miles south of North Shore Scenic Drive (State Highway 61).
Earth's Crust Ruptures
The geology of the shoreline between Split Rock and Little Marais is the direct result of cataclysmic events that occurred many kilometers* below the earth's surface. About 1.1 billion years ago, this continent began . . . — — Map (db m204164) HM
The classic steel arch bridge that spans this gorge is impressive for its simple beauty and elegance. Equally remarkable, but not as obvious to the onlooker, is the massive underground foundation that keeps this bridge sound and secure. To construct . . . — — Map (db m204424) HM
Near State Highway 61, 3 miles north of Blueberry Hill Road.
The scenery of the region between Split Rock and Beaver Bay is the direct result of important events of early geologic time.
Lava flows, which had accumulated in this region to a thickness of about 30,000 feet, were lifted and arched by a huge . . . — — Map (db m76280) HM
Near State Highway 61, 0.3 miles north of Superior Shores Drive, on the right when traveling east.
As you walk the pebbled beaches of the North Shore, watch for translucent, color-banded, and reddish-brown stones called Lake Superior agate—Minnesota's state gemstone. The story of the Lake Superior agate begins 1.1 billion years ago, when basaltic . . . — — Map (db m204248) HM
On Commerce Street (State Highway 112) at Vine Street, on the left when traveling south on Commerce Street.
Named for Pierre Charles Le Sueur, French explorer who passed the site in 1700. This town on the old Red River trail includes two towns, Le Sueur and Le Sueur City which were laid out in 1852-53 on Prairie Le Fleche about a mile apart. Consolidation . . . — — Map (db m65509) HM
On East Lyon Street, on the left when traveling east.
Nearly nine centuries after Leif Ericsson established the first settlement of Europeans in North America, several hundred of his Icelandic countrymen left their native land to make their homes in the Minneota area. First of the Icelanders to . . . — — Map (db m207252) HM
White pines once dominated northern Minnesota. Even in Lindbergh's time these scattered reminders of earlier eras dotted the pasture.
The trunk in front of you is the remains of one of these forest giants. This white pine stood 100-feet . . . — — Map (db m78229) HM
This town began in 1878 and named for a river in Ireland. Became a key point for the sale of 50,000 acres of Railroad lands to Catholic colonists in Murray County through the activities of Archbishop Ireland and the Catholic Colonization . . . — — Map (db m101288) HM
On State Highway 78, on the right when traveling north.
Near this spot James Craigie of Aberdeen, Scotland, who came to Ottertail County about 1868 built the first grist mill in the county in 1870. The mill stones and wheel were imported from Scotland.
Craigie and his wife were drowned in . . . — — Map (db m207661) HM
On State Highway 78 at Bay View Road on State Highway 78.
Otter Tail City in the 1850’s was an important post on the fur trade route from St. Paul and Crow Wing to the Red River Valley. It was once the county seat, and had the U.S. Land Office for the district. When the county seat was established at . . . — — Map (db m207665) HM
Near Main Street North (County Highway 61) south of Northeast 1st Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Plotted in 1869, was named from the Chippewa word "Chengwatana" City of Pines. It was a rough lumberjack town in the early days. From here, logs were floated down the Snake River into the St. Croix River to Stillwater. A rich deposit of copper was . . . — — Map (db m44032) HM
On 340th Street (U.S. 71) south of 690th Avenue (County Road 2), on the right when traveling north.
On the prairie half a mile east of this point, a party of about 160 troops was attacked by Sioux at dawn, Sept. 2, 1862.
During the battle, the force was surrounded for thirty hours, losing over a third of its number in killed and wounded.
. . . — — Map (db m67451) HM
The Pillsbury Mine on this site, part of the Monroe group of mines viewed from this lookout, was named for John S. Pillsbury, Governor of Minnesota and owner of the property when iron ore was discovered in 1893 by Edmund J. Longyear. Mining . . . — — Map (db m207753) HM
On State Highway 61 at Ryan Road (County Highway 50), on the right when traveling north on State Highway 61.
Clifton, first townsite surveyed in the United States section of the North Shore, was platted
west of the mouth of the French River in 1855. The river was known to early explorers
as Riviere des Francais. Rumors of nearby copper deposits resulted . . . — — Map (db m43766) HM
The Cloquet-Moose Lake forest fire of October 12-13, 1918, which almost reached this location, was one of the most destructive forest fires in Minnesota's recorded history. Like other major fires, this one took place on cutover land- the stumps . . . — — Map (db m228645) HM
Near Interstate 94 at milepost 150 near Avon Avenue South, on the right when traveling east.
Between 1854 and 1857 many Catholics came to the United States from Germany and settled in Central Minnesota at Saint Cloud and in the Sauk Valley; their religious and educational needs were met by the Benedictines.
The Benedictine Order and . . . — — Map (db m156988) HM
Near Interstate 94 at milepost 177,, 0.9 miles west of State Highway 24, on the right when traveling west.
After the American Revolution, the 1783 Treaty of Paris, signed by those representing the American Colonies and Great Britain, sought to establish the boundary of the new country. In the middle of the continent the boundary was to run east to west . . . — — Map (db m69746) HM
Near 2nd Avenue Northwest at West Birch Street, on the left when traveling north.
At this point the citizens erected one of three pentagonal blockhouse of green timber, with sides 50 feet long, in August 1862, during the Sioux Outbreak.
A second blockhouse stood near the present grounds of St. Benedict’s College. These . . . — — Map (db m207751) HM
On the east shore of Lake Pepin, opposite this point juts out a high rock. From this pinnacle according to accounts of early travelers, a Sioux maiden of Wabasha’s band prevented from marrying the warrior of her choice, leaped to her death that . . . — — Map (db m207747) HM
Near St. Croix Trail North (State Highway 95) south of Maple Street (County Road 4), on the left when traveling south.
In 1857 these millstones were installed at Marine in one of the early flour and grist mills of Minnesota Territory. Water from a stream south of this site was conveyed by a race or flume to furnish power for the overshot mill wheel. Later, rollers . . . — — Map (db m28509) HM
Near St. Croix Trail North (State Highway 95) south of Maple Street (County Road 4), on the left when traveling south.
The first commercial sawmill in Minnesota was erected 300 feet east of here in 1838. The lumbering industry, which monopolized the minds and talents of men in the St. Croix Valley for three-quarters of a century, was born with the erection of this . . . — — Map (db m28535) HM
Near Lookout Trail North, 0.3 miles south of Main Street South (Minnesota Highway 36 / 95), on the left when traveling south.
Waters from merging glaciers several thousand years' ago carved deep valleys for the St. Croix and Mississippi Rivers. Deprived of the glacial waters the rivers were so reduced in volume and carrying power that they were unable to maintain clear . . . — — Map (db m233489) HM
Near St. Crois Trail North (State Highway 95) 0.1 miles north of Laurel Street East, on the left when traveling north.
In this ravine at daybreak July 3, 1839, a war party of Sioux overtook a body of Chippewa returning from Fort Snelling where a Sioux had been killed by another Chippewa. A bloody battle took place in which the Chippewa losses were about 50 killed . . . — — Map (db m207756) HM
On North Main Street (State Highway 95) 0.6 miles north of Elm Street East, on the left when traveling north.
Here in 1839, in Crawford County, Wisconsin Territory, Joseph R. Brown, first settler of this valley, laid out the town of Dahcotah. The following year as a member of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature, Brown secured passage of a bill setting up . . . — — Map (db m233073) HM
Near U.S. 61, 0.3 miles north of Bass Camp Lane, on the right when traveling north.
In its traverse of 2400 miles from Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River falls 1475 feet, nearly two-thirds of which is within or along the eastern side of Minnesota. For 300 miles from Minneapolis, its course lies between rocky . . . — — Map (db m166631) HM
On Parks Avenue north of U.S. 14 / 61, on the left when traveling north.
"The crown of the majestic Sugar Loaf Bluff is disappearing before the strokes of the utilitarian quarrymen," editorialized the Winona Daily
Republican in 1886. "In a very few years that widely known landmark will be but a homely . . . — — Map (db m43176) HM
On Interstate 94 at milepost 190 near County Road 8, on the right when traveling east.
Minnesota's system of highways evolved gradually. The earliest routes were Native American trails linking major waterways -- trails later used by fur traders. Next came military and stage roads, the main routes of overland travel until railroads . . . — — Map (db m156989) HM
Near County Road 11, 0.3 miles east of State Highway 371, on the left when traveling east.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry works with other agencies and fire departments, to provide wildfire protection for over 16 million acres of Minnesota forest. The Division of Forestry also administers burning . . . — — Map (db m237497) HM
Near County Road 11, 0.3 miles east of State Highway 371, on the left when traveling east.
Forest Fires can be devastating, and they play a paramount role in Minnesota's history. Fires were a recurring event in the Pequot Lakes area, threatening the natural resources, structures, and the human population of the region. Throughout . . . — — Map (db m237498) HM
On Warren Street north of Stadium Road, on the left when traveling east.
Philosophy.
Amos Owen was a Dakota elder and spiritual leader who wanted to preserve and restore traditional Dakota beliefs and practices. He believed that the suppression of Indian peoples had led to many parts of the culture being almost . . . — — Map (db m21588) HM
On Veterans Evergreen Memorial Drive (State Highway 23) at Line Road, on the right when traveling south on Veterans Evergreen Memorial Drive.
Two kilometers northwest of here, the St. Louis River flows on its way to Lake Superior. Its broad river valley, visible from this point, is in a western extension of the Lake Superior basin. Over the last two million years, the Lake Superior basin . . . — — Map (db m205010) HM
On Saint Croix Trail (U.S. 8) 0.3 miles south of Bench Street (State Highway 95), on the left when traveling south.
About 1.1 billion years ago, a great rift valley formed across the North American continent from the Lake Superior region southwest to Kansas. As this rift valley opened, basaltic lavas erupted into it, accumulating to a thickness of up to 20 . . . — — Map (db m45814) HM
Near Superior Hiking Trail north of Highway 61, on the right when traveling north.
So named in honor of Clarence R. Magney (1883-1962), lawyer, mayor of Duluth, district judge, justice of Minnesota’s Supreme Court, student of Minnesota history, defender of its wilderness areas, champion of their preservation.
As a young man . . . — — Map (db m232202) HM
On North Shore Scenic Drive (State Highway 61) 2.3 miles east of County Road 7, on the right when traveling north.
The rocks of the North Shore of Lake Superior record the last period of volcanic activity in Minnesota. This volcanism occurred 1.1 billion years ago when the North American continent began to rupture along a great rift valley, which extended from . . . — — Map (db m203069) HM
Hasting lies just south and East of the last glaciation. About 20,000 years ago a lobe of ice, called the Superior lobe, advanced from the Lake Superior basin and crossed the ancient bedrock valley of the Mississippi River between St. Paul and . . . — — Map (db m42199) HM
On Lake Street at Water Street, on the right when traveling north on Lake Street.
Like most lakes in Minnesota, Lake Minnetonka was formed during the Ice Age of the last two million years. During several separate glacial periods, ice advanced along different routes across the state. The glaciers, along with large volumes of . . . — — Map (db m59925) HM
Near Ella Avenue Northwest, 0.1 miles west of Business U.S. 71, on the right when traveling west.
The agricultural land of the Willmar region has a history that dates back 60 million years, when an inland sea covered the Great Plains from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. As the adjacent land eroded and life in the sea flourished, . . . — — Map (db m75844) HM
On Lakeshore Drive at U.S. 75, on the right when traveling south on Lakeshore Drive.
The second highest point in southwestern Minnesota is about one kilometer north of here on the Bemis moraine, locally known as Buffalo Ridge. This ridge marks a drainage divide separating the watersheds of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Lake . . . — — Map (db m228133) HM
Near U.S. 2, 0.1 miles west of 370th Avenue Southwest, on the right when traveling west.
Welcome to Minnesota (south side)Known to her citizens as the North Star State or the Gopher State, Minnesota has never claimed to be the Land of giants. But two famous American giants do hail from Minnesota. The giant lumberjack Paul . . . — — Map (db m162685) HM
Near East Oak Street, 0.8 miles west of North Lincoln Street.
Exposed in the rocky hillocks of the Minnesota River valley between Montevideo and Morton are some of the oldest rocks on earth. The pink-and-black banded rock used for the pedestal of this tablet is a metamorphic rock called gneiss (pronounced . . . — — Map (db m69216) HM
Near U.S. 10, 0.4 miles west of U.S. 169, on the left when traveling west.
Minnesota was largely covered by glaciers many times during the last million years. The ice flowed across the state from both the northeast and the northwest. As it advanced along separate paths, it scraped up, crushed, and carried with it . . . — — Map (db m69965) HM
On North 6th Street north of Main Street (Minnesota Highway 19), on the left when traveling north.
The Minnesota River Valley has been home to many cultures. Paleo, Archaic, Plains, Woodland, Iowa, Oneota and Dakota Indians followed each other in the basin. After 1852, settlers from Europe and the eastern U. S. came to the valley looking for a . . . — — Map (db m72107) HM
On Leeward Road north of County Road 3, on the right when traveling south.
From Winona to La Crosse, the Mississippi River valley displays its greatest depth as it extends vertically through more than 240 meters of a sedimentary-rock plateau. Here, Highway 61 follows the narrow strip between the river and the steep bluffs . . . — — Map (db m213346) HM
On Northeast 4th Street (U.S. 2) at Northeast 2nd Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Northeast 4th Street.
Minnesota Territory 1849-1858 (marker side 1) On March 3, 1849, during his last hours in office. President James K. Polk signed a bill adding a new name to the American political landscape — Minnesota Territory. A vast . . . — — Map (db m126662) HM
Near U.S. 12, 0.1 miles west of U.S. 75, on the left when traveling west.
Imagine a tremendous torrent of glacial melt water pushing and then bursting across the continental divide and scouring its way to the Gulf of Mexico. The massive river was, in places, almost two miles wide and 130 feet deep. About 13,000 years ago, . . . — — Map (db m160960) HM
Samuel Pond (1808-1891) and Gideon Pond (1810-1878) were born into a mostly rural United States comprised of 17 states with a population of slightly over 7 million. These brothers from Connecticut were two of the most influential persons interacting . . . — — Map (db m117720) HM
On Cemetery Road, 0.3 miles east of Barber Street, in the median.
In memory of her soldiers who lost their lives in the service of the United States in the war for the preservation of the Union.
A.D. 1861—1865 — — Map (db m180357) WM
Near Old Alltatoona Road SE, 0.4 miles north of Allatoona Landing Road SE, on the right when traveling north.
On this site stood a wood frame "dog-trot" style house that served as the regimental headquarters for the 4th Minnesota Regiment, the permanent Federal garrison at Allatoona under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John E. Tourtellotte.
Here . . . — — Map (db m87376) HM
Near Old Allatoona Road Southeast, 1.5 miles east of Interstate 75, on the left when traveling east.
In tribute to the officers and men of the Fourth Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Lt. Col. John E. Tourtellotte, commanding. Who held their ground on October 5, 1864. 11 killed. 33 wounded. — — Map (db m240083) HM WM
On Reeds Bridge Road west of Rock Haven Lane, on the right when traveling west.
The Second Regiment Minnesota Veteran Volunteer Infantry.
In Van Derveer's Brigade
Was here engaged Saturday, September 19, 1863, between 8 and
10 o'clock, a.m. holding its position against repeated assaults
of the enemy. Losing eight . . . — — Map (db m106610) HM WM
On LaFayette Road north of Poe Road, on the right when traveling north.
Text on the west side of the monument;
2nd Minnesota
Text on the south side of the monument;
Erected
Bt the
State of Minnesota
1893
Text on the north side of the monument;
The . . . — — Map (db m120643) HM
On LaFayette Road south of Viniard Road, on the left when traveling south.
Text on the Front Side of the Monument (On base side towards Lafayette road):
Erected
By the
State of Minnesota
————————
In commemoration of the
galant and patriotic services
of . . . — — Map (db m102189) HM WM
Near Vittetoe Road west of Vittetoe-Chickamauga Road when traveling west.
[Front Side of Monument]:
The Second Regiment Minnesota Veteran Volunteer Infantry.
Occupied this position Sunday September 20th, 1863, from 2:30 P.M., to 7:30 P.M., successfully maintaining it against repeated assaults by the . . . — — Map (db m39339) HM
Near East 7th Street just west of Lincoln Street (U.S. 81), on the left when traveling west.
Michael and Walter Nolan were born in New York City. Their mother, Nellie Nolan, was an unwed teenage Irish girl. Michael, Walter and Nellie lived together at the New York Foundling Hospital until April 1915. Nellie worked at the Foundling Hospital . . . — — Map (db m185998) HM
On West 6th Street just west of Broadway Street, on the left when traveling west.
Miriam was born in New York. She was about 19 months old when the Orphan Train took her from the New York Foundling Hospital to Freeport, Minn. The Roerings had requested a baby girl no older than 2 years, with brown hair and blue eyes. Herman and . . . — — Map (db m185762) HM
Wood burning, steam powered, 4 line, re-haul skidder on wheels. A wire rope was run from its metal booms to the woods where logs were hooked and hauled into piles near the tracks. This is the only double-end skidder known to exist! — — Map (db m134361) HM
The original courthouse built on this site in 1887 included a jail and sheriff's residence. It served a population of about 2,000 people. As a logging town, Aitkin became a railhead and an important stopping point for boats on the Mississippi . . . — — Map (db m127867) HM
On U.S. 10, 0.8 miles east of Cleveland Street, on the right when traveling east.
Twenty thousand years ago, a great sheet of ice, the Superior lobe, covered this
area. At its farthest advance, it formed the St. Croix moraine, a series of high hills to the
west, south, and east. When it melted, it left behind vast . . . — — Map (db m70297) HM
On 1st Street North just south of 3rd Avenue North, on the right when traveling north.
Minnesota Territory 1849-1858On March 3, 1849, during his last hours in office. President James K. Polk signed a bill adding a new name to the American political landscape — Minnesota Territory. A vast land, it stretched from the St. . . . — — Map (db m205213) HM
On Civic Center Plaza (Hickory Street) west of S. 2nd Street, on the right when traveling west.
Early European explorers were drawn to the Minnesota River Valley's unique characteristics just like the Native Americans before them. French Fur Trader and Explorer Pierre Charles Le Sueur was the first recorded European explorer of the . . . — — Map (db m237541) HM
On Civic Center Plaza (Hickory Street) west of South 2nd Street, on the right when traveling west.
European settlers began arriving in the area in the 1850s. The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, signed July 23, 1851, allowed settlers to claim land that had once belonged to the Dakota. In 1852, Parsons King Johnson and Henry Jackson claimed the . . . — — Map (db m236258) HM
Following the usual pattern of river town development, steamboating was essential for Mankato, from its founding in 1852 until the arrival of the first railroad in 1868.
During the heyday of steamboating at Mankato, boats based at St. Paul . . . — — Map (db m129536) HM
Since the end of the last ice age, Minneopa Creek has carved a ravine through sandstone bedrock, creating a spectacular double waterfall.
Sometimes roaring, sometimes just a trickle, these falls have been an attraction for hundreds of years. This . . . — — Map (db m231657) HM
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