- A blue mid stripe represents the Mississippi River; a small cabin stands for Father Gaultier’s original St. Paul chapel; a dome represents Minnesota’s Capitol and capital; and a winged wheel indicates St. Paul’s position as a transportation hub. The flag also contains a star of the north, symbolic of Minnesota, and a red shield, representing the progress and spirit of the city, while gold stripes are symbolic of the future.
- Discover the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary (saintpaulhistorical.com)
A thousand years ago the area around the confluence of Trout Brook and Phalen Brook near the Mississippi River was a marshy flood plain. By the early 1900s, the entire delta had been expanded by filling and became an industrial railroad corridor. As rail use decreased in the 1970s, the land was largely abandoned and buildings and tracks were removed.
- down the Mississippi
- I-90 Mississippi River Bridge
Jason and David at Lock and Dam No. 7- Lock and Dam No. 7
- Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. This name is a combination of the Indian word minni water and the Greek polis, meaning city. The first house was built here in 1849. The town was incorporated In 1867. St. Anthony, a very old town on the east bank of the river and directly at the Falls of St. Anthony, was incorporated in 1856 and merged with Minneapolis in 1872. St. Anthony city was named from the Falls, and the falls were named by the early French missionaries and explorers for St. Anthony of Padua. The falls were first seen by these missionaries on St. Anthony’s day.
- Mississippi River (Wikipedia)
The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it flows generally south for 2,340 miles (3,766 km) to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi’s watershed drains all or parts of 32 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian mountains. The main stem is entirely within the United States; the total drainage basin is 1,151,000 sq mi (2,980,000 km2), of which only about one percent is in Canada. The Mississippi ranks as the thirteenth-largest river by discharge in the world. The river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Mississippi River from Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary- Much of Louisiana’s lands were formed from sediment washed down the Mississippi River, leaving enormous deltas and vast areas of coastal marsh and swamp.
- New Orleans
- Nicollet Island
- Phalen Creek travels from Lake Phalen and drains into the Mississippi River just north of Lambert’s Landing.
- Ramsey County from the Digitized State of Minnesota Plat Book – 1916
- Saint Croix River
Train crossing Nicollet Island
- Coon Rapids, Minnesota
- Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
- Fridley, Minnesota
- Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Fort Snelling (unincorporated territory)
- Mendota, Minnesota
- Lilydale, Minnesota
- Newport, Minnesota
- Cottage Grove, Minnesota
- Hastings, Minnesota
- Prescott, Wisconsin
- Dubuque, Iowa
- incomplete list
