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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CEC_st-andrews-roman-catholic-cathedral_Victoria-BC.html
Soaring skywards with its bold array of coloured brick, stone and slate, St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral displays the confident spirituality that characterizes the best religious architecture of the High Victorian Gothic style. Designed in 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CEB_fisgard-lighthouse_Colwood-BC.html
The first permanent lighthouse on the Pacific coast of Canada, Fisgard was erected in 1859-60 by the British and Colonial Governments to guide mariners into Esquimalt Harbour. Brought from England with the first lightkeeper, the lantern became ope…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CEA_bridging-the-mississippi_Anoka-MN.html
The Mississippi River was an obstacle to overland travelers attempting to cross to the other side. From1855 to 1884 a flat bottomed cable ferry was maintained between Anoka and Champlin. For a time two ferry companies operated at this crossing and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CD4_the-stone-house-robert-w-akin_Anoka-MN.html
The Stone HouseThree stone houses were built during the 1920's by Thaddeus P. Giddings (1969-1954). Giddings was the Supervisor of Music for the Minneapolis Schools and founder of the National Music Camp in Interlachen, Michigan. The stone houses …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C79_the-gathering-place_Anoka-MN.html
The square of land on the east side of the Rum River just south of Main Street has been a place for Anoka citizens to gather since the town began in the mid-1800's. Known as Bridge Square, it was a place to share news, to hear speeches and concert…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C6T_antigua-guatemala-unesco-world-heritage-site_Antigua-Guatemala-Sacatepequez.html
La Antigua GuatemalaSantiago de GuatemalaTrazada en 1543, Capital del Reino de Guatemala hasta su traslado en 1775.
Declarada patrimonio de la humanidad e incluida en la lista de la Convenci?n del Patrimonio Cultural Mundial de UNESCO, con el n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C6S_highway-of-exploration_Anoka-MN.html
The Rum and the Mississippi were highways for the earliest recorded European explorers of Minnesota. Many explorers traveled past The Point and some may have camped here including Radission, Hennepin, Du Luth, Pike, Faribault and Nicollet.
Fath…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BZL_ice-age-souvenir_Ramsey-MN.html
Twenty thousand years ago, a great sheet of ice, the Superior lobe, covered thisarea. At its farthest advance, it formed the St. Croix moraine, a series of high hills to thewest, south, and east. When it melted, it left behind vast deposits of gra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BYR_rum-river-dam_Anoka-MN.html
The first dam was built here in 1853 of logs and earth fill by Caleb and W.H. Woodbury. It washed away in high water in the Spring of 1854. A second dam was built in 1854 by James McCann. This dam and its pool provided 5 sluiceways for water power…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BPJ_itasca-village-townsite_Ramsey-MN.html
Itasca grew up around an Indian trading post which was established 800 feet east of here in 1849 by Thomas A. Holmes and James Beatty. At the suggestion of Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey, the settlement was named in honor of Lake Itasca, th…