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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 ...
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
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]
The St. Croix Boom Site is a historic and scenic wayside on the St. Croix River in Stillwater Township, Minnesota, United States.It commemorates the location of a critical log boom where, from 1856 to 1914, timber from upriver was sorted and stored before being dispatched to sawmills downstream.
Soon he was part-owner of the St. Croix Log Boom and managing the local interests of Minnesota's leading lumber magnate Frederick Weyerhaeuser. [4] Sauntry married Eunice Tozer, the daughter of a business partner, in 1881—around the same time he commissioned a house in Stillwater's North Hill neighborhood.
Isaac Staples' Sawmill is a historic industrial property in Stillwater, Minnesota, United States, consisting of an 1850 stone powerhouse and a 1900 metal-clad factory.The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as St. Croix Lumber Mills—Stillwater Manufacturing Company in 1982 for its local significance in the theme of industry. [2]
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.
Area: 4.8 acres (1.9 ha) Built: 1938–9: Built by: National Youth Administration, Minnesota Highway Department: Architect: Arthur R. Nichols, Harold E. Olsen: Architectural style: National Park Service Rustic: MPS: Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota MPS: NRHP reference No. 07001318 [1] Added to NRHP: December 27, 2007