Laughter, Falling Water and Time
The location of the old Gellenbeck stage station coming from St. Anthony and Fort Snelling on the dusty road to St. Peter and points South, in Minnesota Territorial days. 2, 000 guns, historic Concord coaches, food and Western hospitality extended by Osborne and Marie Klavestad. Howdy: 15 ridin’ miles from Mpls. and St. Paul.
About twenty-five miles east and south of Minneapolis, County Seat of Dakota County, a portion of the city of Hastings stretches over into Washington County. Built near the complicated confluence of the Mississippi, Vermillion, and St. Croix Rivers. This fine city is named for the first elected governor of Minnesota, Henry Hastings Sibley. Downtown is … Read more
Interstate Park, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, and Taylor Falls, Minnesota, 30 mites from Minneapolis and Saint Paul. The rock ledges at the Dalles are ancient lava flows. of which seven may be identified, rising like giant steps above the rivet. The lava. or trap, is well jointed. so that there are vertical precipices and isolated … Read more
The University Theater operates the SHOW- BOAT on the Mississippi River every summer, during the months Of June, July, and August. Address: Showboat, University Of Minnesota, Minneapolis 14, Minnesota, U. S. A. All seats for all performances reserved—$2.OO. Tickets may be purchased at the Scott Hall Box Office, Minneapolis, Minn. 55455. Phone— 373-2337. Also Daytons … Read more
“HI” OVER EAST AREA MINNEAPOLIS CAMPUS University Of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota View of the campus with Mississippi River in the foreground. The river is the scene Of many Summer- time campus activities one unique spectacle is the Centennial Showboat which performs to sellout crowds throughout its summer season.
Saint Paul in the heart of the Land of Lakes is the capital city of Minnesota, a city whose history teems with events, institutions, and places memorable in the building of the West. You will be attracted by the beauty of this superb city. The majestic “Seven Hills’ gently sloping back from the rivers become … Read more
THE SIBLEY HOUSE MENDOTA, MINNESOTA Built in 1835 by Henry Sibley The house still stands near the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers near Fort Snelling. The library in this historic home was used as the temporary capitol of Minnesota Territory by Governor Alexander Ramsey in 1849. The Sibley House is owned and maintained … Read more
Barely 100 feet from the entrance to the Museum of Natural History on the University of Minnesota campus is a 7,600-pound chunk of basalt rock that was rudely dislodged from its subterranean resting place when the site of the present museum was being excavated in the fall of 1938. This pebble with ambition—actually a “glacial … Read more
LORING PARK One of many parks located in this city of lakes and parks, Loring Park is within walking distance of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. FLOWER GARDENS, LORING PARK Here on the very edge of the downtown business district; Loring Park is one of the beauty spots of the Northwest with its spacious lawns and beautiful … Read more