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Marine on St. Croix or Marine on Saint Croix [2] (/ m ə ˈ r iː n ɒ n ˈ s eɪ n t ˈ k r ɔɪ / mə-REEN on SAYNT KROY) [4] is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 689 at the 2010 census. [5] It was founded in 1839 as Marine Mills. The city was the site of the first commercial sawmill on the St. Croix ...
Afton State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, on the St. Croix River in Washington County. Its hiking trails offer views of the river, rolling glacial moraine , and bluffland it preserves. It is a popular place for birdwatching , picnics , camping , and other typical outdoor recreational activities.
The village of Afton, formally organized in 1858, was situated on two main travel routes in early Minnesota: the St. Croix River and the Point Douglas to Superior Military Road. The town's first hotel was built in 1856 but it was completely destroyed by a fire in 1861. Six years later Charles C. Cushing built this hotel on the same site.
The man who drowned July 3 in the St. Croix River at Afton State Park was Jeremey Andrew Paulson, 27, of Minneapolis, authorities said Monday. His name had been held pending notification of relatives.
View of St. Croix Valley above Afton. Afton (/ ˈ æ f t ə n / AF-tən) [4] is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,886 at the 2010 United States Census. [5] It lies on a small bay where Valley Creek empties into the St. Croix River, several miles north of its confluence with the Mississippi River.
Two men died Saturday morning after their small plane crashed and burst into flames near a home in Afton, authorities said. Several neighbors reported what sounded like a small explosion about 9: ...
Afton Alps is a ski area, which hosts a collection of ski and snowboard trails, located along the St. Croix River in the northeast corner of Denmark Township, Washington County, south of Afton, Minnesota in the United States. There are nearly 300 acres (1.2 km 2) skiable at Afton Alps. The ski hill has 350 feet (110 m) of vertical drop.
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.