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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29UV_boyhood-home-of-sinclair-lewis_Sauk-Centre-MN.html
Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) spent his formative years in this home. Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NUY_fort-holes_Saint-Cloud-MN.html
About one block east of this marker, near the site of the Gray Laboratory School, stood Fort Holes, for a brief time a reminder of the panic accompanying the Sioux uprising of 1862. As fighting flared, frightened settlers streamed into nearby vill…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LZ6_charles-lindberghs-minnesota-roots_Avon-MN.html
When Charles Lindbergh landed his airplane on May 21, 1927, after becoming the first person to fly solo and non-stop from New York to Paris, he instantly became a national hero. His background and boyhood in Minnesota prepared him well for this ro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HSQ_veterans-memorial_Paynesville-MN.html
In Memory of the Area Veterans Who Served Honorably - 1986 - Paynesville American Legion Post 271
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HCX_st-johns-abbey-and-university-old-church-and-quadrangle_St.-Joseph-MN.html
This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HCW_st-johns-abbey-and-university_St.-Joseph-MN.html
St. John's Abbey was founded in 1856 on the west bank of the Mississippi near St. Cloud and permanently located in the Indianbush, now Collegeville, on the shore of Lake Sagatagan in 1866. St. John's was the first Benedictine abbey in the Upper Mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HCS_assumption-chapel-aka-grasshopper-chapel_Cold-Spring-MN.html
1854 Father Francis X. Pierz offers first mass in this vicinity 1877 Father Leo Winter, O.S.B. erects a chapel in honor of the Assumption of B.V.M. to avert grasshopper plague 1894 June 28. Tornado destroys chapel 1951 Chapel rebuilt during pastor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HCO_quarry-derrick_Waite-Park-MN.html
This derrick was donated by Cold Spring Granite in 2006 to Stearns County Parks. It was disassembled from Cook, MN by park staff and Cold Springs Granite staff and transported to Quarry Park and Nature Preserve to complement the granite industry i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HC1_fata-morgana_Waite-Park-MN.html
Fata Morgana is carved from Cold Spring Granite's diamond pink granite from Rockville Quarry #1, located just west of HWY 23 before the I-94/HWY 23 interchange. The sculpture weights [sic] about 5,300 lbs. and was carved in 2005 by George Kurjanow…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HC0_st-walburg-hall_St.-Joseph-MN.html
This property has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior
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