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This is Minnesota's oldest, deepest, and richest iron mine, and now hosts the Soudan Underground Laboratory. In the late 19th century, prospectors searching for gold in northern Minnesota discovered extremely rich veins of hematite at this site, often containing more than 65% iron. An open pit mine began operation in 1882, and moved to ...
Cemetery established in 1856 whose pioneer and Dakota burials and 1890 soldiers' monument reflect Bloomington's transition from frontier settlement to participant in state affairs like military service. [69] 58: Woodbury Fisk House: Woodbury Fisk House: October 6, 1983 : 424 5th St. SE.
Ruins of the 1861 house of influential Minnesota settler Joseph R. Brown (1805–1870). Also associated with native–white relations, white settlement and reservation establishment on the upper Minnesota River, and the outbreak of the Dakota War of 1862. [112] Now the Joseph R. Brown State Wayside. [113] 3: Heins Block: Heins Block: August 8, 2001
Eight houses mostly built 1884–1899, significant as Southwest Minnesota's best collection of large, late-19th-century residences and for their association with the era's business leaders in New Ulm. [39] 34: St. Michael's School and Convent: St. Michael's School and Convent: December 31, 1979 : 500 N. State St.
Built in 1856 on the bluffs of the Minnesota River, the Gideon H. Pond House is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places.. In 1839, with renewed conflict with the Ojibwa nation, Chief Cloud Man relocated his band of the Mdewakanton Sioux from Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis to an area named Oak Grove in southern Bloomington, close to present-day Portland Avenue. [13]
It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. Dakota County is located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota, bounded on the northeast side by the Upper Mississippi River and on the northwest by the Minnesota River ...
1. It Was the First Burger Chain. In 1921, Edgar Waldo "Billy" Ingram, a former insurance agent, and J. Walter Anderson, who owned several burger stands, opened the first White Castle in Wichita ...
The monument rises above New Ulm. This statue commemorates the German victory over the Romans at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, a symbol of German patriotism.. While Arminius had been known in Germany since the rediscovery of the writings of Tacitus in the 15th century, German Protestant intellectuals in the first half of the 18th century christened him "Hermann Deutsch" and promoted his ...