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Fortifying Saint Cloud: Searching For Fort Holes, Charles Peliska
Fortifying Saint Cloud: Searching For Fort Holes, Charles Peliska
Culminating Projects in Cultural Resource Management
This thesis is about my efforts to locate Fort Holes – a civilian fortification built in September of 1862 in response to the nearby threats of Native American violence. A decade after the western parts of Minnesota were opened to Euro-American settlement, the actions of government agents, traders, and a small group of Native American actors led to violence on the frontier. The citizens of Saint Cloud constructed Fort Holes in a week and it only stood for a couple of years before they removed the lumber for the growing city. Throughout Minnesota, citizens constructed over 50 of these expedient …
Transitions: The Study Of A Late Nineteenth Century Minnesota Farmstead During A Period Of Agricultural Transition, Theresa Gilbertson
Transitions: The Study Of A Late Nineteenth Century Minnesota Farmstead During A Period Of Agricultural Transition, Theresa Gilbertson
Culminating Projects in Cultural Resource Management
The late 19th century in Minnesota was largely shaped by immigration, and Benton County was no exception. The region was a prime location for families, providing land that was both fertile and abundant. It was common for a couple members of a family to head west first, the rest of the family joining at a later time. Families could find land near each other and stick together in a new country. Benton County boasts a number of farmstead sites from this period of time. In 1873, John Keefe homesteaded one of these farms.
Diversity in population was not the …
A Macromorphological Analysis Of End Scrapers From Sites Associated With Two Phases Of The Oneota Tradition, The Blue Earth And Spring Creek, In Southern Minnesota, Joshua Bradley Anderson
A Macromorphological Analysis Of End Scrapers From Sites Associated With Two Phases Of The Oneota Tradition, The Blue Earth And Spring Creek, In Southern Minnesota, Joshua Bradley Anderson
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The relationships and distinctions between Oneota tradition groups in southern Minnesota are not well understood. Two contemporaneous phases of the Oneota tradition in southern Minnesota, the Blue Earth and Spring Creek, which date, minimally, to the 14th and early 15th centuries, are represented by clusters of sites along the Blue Earth River Valley (the Center and Willow Creek localities) and near the junction of the Mississippi and Cannon rivers (the Red Wing region). This thesis attempts to address some basic questions with regards to the differences and similarities between Spring Creek and Blue Earth phase groups in terms of end …