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The Stillwater Commercial Historic District encompasses 11 downtown blocks in Stillwater, Minnesota, United States. It comprises 63 contributing properties built from the 1860s to 1940. [ 2 ] It was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 for its local significance in the themes of architecture and ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 17.5 square miles (45.4 km 2), of which 16.5 square miles (42.8 km 2) is land and 1.0 square mile (2.5 km 2) (5.59%) is water. Minnesota State Highways 95 and 96 are two of the main routes in the township.
In 1996 the city of Stillwater entered into an agreement with Stillwater Township to annex land. In 2015 the Stillwater city council approved the annexing the last of the land covered by the agreement. The city's western border is now Manning Avenue (County Road 15). The northern border is now mostly, but not entirely, Minnesota Highway 96. [23]
Stillwater Township: Site of Minnesota's earliest, longest-serving, and most important log boom, where lumber was stored and sorted 1856–1914 at the terminus of the St. Croix River's great log drives. [44] Now a highway wayside. 31: St. Croix Lumber Mills-Stillwater Manufacturing Company: St. Croix Lumber Mills-Stillwater Manufacturing Company
Minnesota's first state park, Itasca State Park, was established in 1891, and is the source of the Mississippi River. [21] Today Minnesota has 72 state parks and recreation areas, 58 state forests covering about four million acres (16,000 km 2), and numerous state wildlife preserves, all managed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
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John Edward Mower (1815–1879), member of the Minnesota territorial legislature in the 1850s 40,058: 711.50 sq mi (1,843 km 2) Murray County: 101: Slayton: 1857: Brown County: William Pitt Murray (1825–1910), Minnesota statesman and member of the territorial legislature (1852–1855) and 1857: 8,049: 704.43 sq mi (1,824 km 2) Nicollet County ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.03 square miles (7.85 km 2); 2.98 square miles (7.72 km 2) is land and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km 2) is water. [8] Oak Park Heights is located adjacent to the city of Stillwater. Minnesota State Highways 5, 36 and 95 are three of the main routes in the community.