Minnesota history along the highways
Subtitle: a guide to historic markers and sites
By: compiled by Sarah P. Rubinstein.
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: St. Paul, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Historical markers -- Minnesota -- Guidebooks.; Historic sites -- Minnesota -- Guidebooks.; Minnesota -- Guidebooks.; Minnesota -- History, Local.
Genres: Guidebooks.
Description: "History surrounds us. For more than 125 years Minnesotans have remembered this by marking the places where significant historic events occurred. This guide presents the locations and texts of 259 historic markers, 60 geologic markers, and 29 state historic monuments in all corners of the state. The markers honor fur traders and settlers, explorers and miners, Civil War soldiers and entrepreneurs; they explain waterfalls and sand plains and glacial potholes. Some have stood for over a century, marking the sites of the Dakota War of 1862. Others, more recent, enhance the interstate highways with brief, informative histories of Red River trails, immigrant communities, and important industries."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.