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The train parked at Stillwater in 2010. The Minnesota Zephyr was a heritage railroad operating out of Stillwater, Minnesota. It operated as a dinner train and served a five-course, white linen dinner on a six-mile route, traveling between four and seven miles per hour. [1] Power was provided by two EMD F7 locomotives, [2] with one on each end ...
45°9′24″N 92°48′15″W / 45.15667°N 92.80417°W / 45.15667; -92.80417. Type. lake. Square Lake is a lake in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. [1] Located near Stillwater, Minnesota it is a popular destination for fishing, swimming, and Scuba diving. The lake has a surface area of approximately 203 acres and ...
Designated NRHP. November 13, 1966. 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.
Minnehaha. (steamboat) / 44.90306°N 93.57444°W / 44.90306; -93.57444. Minnehaha is a steam-powered excursion vessel on Lake Minnetonka in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The vessel was originally in service between 1906 and 1926. After being scuttled in 1926, Minnehaha was raised from the bottom of Lake Minnetonka in 1980, restored, and ...
May 25, 1989. The Stillwater Bridge (alternatively known as the Stillwater Lift Bridge, St. Croix River Bridge at Stillwater, Mn/DOT Bridge #4654, and Wis/DOT Bridge #M-61) is a vertical-lift bridge crossing the St. Croix River between Stillwater, Minnesota, and Houlton, Wisconsin. It formerly connected Minnesota State Highway 36 and Wisconsin ...
MN mention: Of course, it's tempting to choose Erdrich's "The Sentence," much of which is set inside a book shop similar to the author's Birchbark Books. But the Minneapolis store is not very ...
In 1906 the commissioner of the Minnesota park asked a family from Stillwater to conduct boat tours of the Dalles. Beginning with a small powerboat, this concession business grew quickly. In 1910 they began renting canoes and rowboats, and offered tours on progressively larger boats. Today they are still in business, family-owned for four ...
Vessels. The Jonathan Padelford is a nearly-authentic Mark Twain-era sternwheeler riverboat that was built in 1969 at Dubuque Boat and Boiler Co., Dubuque, IA. The boat replicates the paddle wheel mechanism, but operates on diesel fuel instead of the original steam technology. Two years after completion the Padelford was taken to a shipyard in ...