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Coordinates: 44°0′13.2″N 96°19′4.4″W. The World's Largest Peace Pipe. The World's Largest Peace Pipe is a statue of a ceremonial pipe in Pipestone, Minnesota, United States. It began with a vision shared by three spiritual people: one Lakota and two Anishinaabe. The pipe stands on the grounds of the historic Rock Island Railroad depot ...
Designated NMON. August 25, 1937. Pipestone National Monument is located in southwestern Minnesota, just north of the city of Pipestone, Minnesota. It is located along the highways of U.S. Route 75, Minnesota State Highway 23 and Minnesota State Highway 30. The quarries are culturally significant to 23 tribal nations of North America.
FIPS code. 27-51388. GNIS feature ID. 2396214 [3] Website. pipestoneminnesota.com. Pipestone is a city and the county seat of Pipestone County, Minnesota. The population was 4,215 at the 2020 census. [4] The city is also the site of the Pipestone National Monument.
Second Street, N.E. 44°00′06″N 96°18′39″W. / 44.001621°N 96.310884°W / 44.001621; -96.310884 ( Pipestone Water Tower) Pipestone. 1920 water tower, one of the first to be built with concrete. Designer L.P. Wolff pioneered the method in 1918 for the nearly identical Brainerd Water Tower in Brainerd, Minnesota.
76001066 [1] Added to NRHP. March 16, 1976. The Calumet Hotel, also known as the Calumet Inn, anchors the historic district of downtown Pipestone, Minnesota, United States. The three-story Richardsonian Romanesque hotel was built with light pink jasper quartzite as opposed to the red Sioux quartzite used in most other downtown buildings. The ...
Inlaid Pipe Bowl collected at Fort Snelling 1833–1836, made from stone from the Yankton quarry. [4] The Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota is a federally recognized tribe of Yankton Western Dakota people, located in South Dakota. Their Dakota name is Ihaƞktoƞwaƞ Dakota Oyate, meaning "People of the End Village" which comes from the period ...
Adam Nordwall. 1929 (age 94–95) Red Lake Indian Reservation, Red Lake, Minnesota. Nationality. American. Adam Fortunate Eagle L.H.D. (born Adam Nordwall), hereditary member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, is a Native American activist and was the principal organizer of the 1969–1971 Occupation of Alcatraz by "Indians of All Tribes".
The Jeffers Petroglyphs site is an outcrop in southwestern Minnesota with pre-contact Native American petroglyphs. The petroglyphs are pecked into rock of the Red Rock Ridge, a 23-mile (37 km)-long Sioux quartzite outcrop that extends from Watonwan County, Minnesota to Brown County, Minnesota. The exposed surface is approximately 150 by 650 ...