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Frontenac (/ ˈ f r ɒ t ɛ n æ k / FRON-teh-nak) [5] is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Florence Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States, on the Mississippi River.
Location of Goodhue County in Minnesota. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Goodhue County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
June 11, 1992 (Off Minnesota Highway 210 east of Carlton: Carlton vicinity: Exemplary suspension bridge built in 1934 and inn built 1940–42, associated with New Deal federal work relief, the development a major Minnesota state park, and National Park Service rustic architecture.
Frontenac State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, on the Mississippi River 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Red Wing. The park is notable both for its history and for its birdwatching opportunities.
Wells Creek is a 27.6-mile-long (44.4 km) [1] tributary of the Mississippi River in Wabasha and Goodhue counties in Minnesota, United States. [2] It enters the Mississippi at Old Frontenac. [3] Wells Creek was named for James "Bully" Wells, an early settler. [4]
Today, an Ursuline convent and the Villa Maria Conference Center stand on the site of the old fort, in Florence Township of Goodhue County, in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. The Minnesota Department of Transportation inventories a roadside historical marker of the presumed location of the fort along US 61/US 63. [1]
The Minnesota Historical Society operates 31 historic sites and museums, 26 of which are open to the public. MNHS manages 16 sites directly and 7 in partnerships where the society maintains the resources and provides funding. 6 sites are being held for preservation but are closed to public access, and five are self-guided sites with interpretive signage.
Hennepin County. Father Louis Hennepin was the first European explorer to visit and name Saint Anthony Falls, the tallest waterfall on the Mississippi River, in 1680.While the falls were familiar to the Ojibwe and Sioux Indians who lived in the area, Father Hennepin spread word of the falls when he returned to France in 1683.