Minnesota State Society Daughters of the American Colonists
Bronze Markers in Minnesota
Standing on this Site
An Emissary of LaSalle
LOUIS HENNEPIN
The First White Man
To See These Falls
Christened Them
SAINT ANTHONY
July 1680
This Tablet is Erected in His Honor
By the Minnesota Society
Daughters of the American Colonists
1924
Located in Lucy Wilder Morris Park, east of St. Anthony Falls at 6th St SE,
Minneapolis (removed) Photographs courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society
To Perpetuate
The Memory of
The Sioux or Dakota Indians
Who Occupied This Region
for More Than Two Centuries
Prior to the Treaties of 1851
This Tablet is Erected by the
Minnesota Society
Daughters of the American Colonists
1930
Located near 37th St and East Calhoun Parkway, Minneapolis Top photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Bottom photo by the Minneapolis Star Tribune
On July 1 - 1850
Louis Hennepin
Left This Place
To Discover the
St. Anthony Falls
Marked by the
Daughters of the American Colonists
1929
Located at the Rum River junction with the Mississippi River, Champlin Top photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Bottom photo by K. Linzmeier, October 24, 2013
The Richfield Methodist Church was organized in 1854 by seven families in the Dunsmoor Home. The present building was erected in 1869. This Church has survived four wars, droughts, grasshoppers and two depressions.
Marked by the Minnesota Society Daughters of the American Colonists
