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.
ST. ANTHONY FALLS BRIDGE at Minneapolis, Minnesota, completed in June, 1918, at a cost of $865,000. It is the largest concrete arch bridge, built on a reverse curve, that spans the Mississippi River at any point from source to its mouth. Designed and built by the Minneapolis City Engineering Department.
In 1903, Marion Savage, owner of race horse Dan Patch purchased the old Industrial Exposition Building for his International Stock Food Company. Later the building was home to the M. W. Savage Co. , a mail order equipment supplier. The facility was so big clerks used roller skates to travel across the vast interior spaces … Read more