Interior of Carver's Cave
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Photographer: William Henry Illingworth(1842-1893)
Date: 1870
Image Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
This file appears in: Is it Carver's Cave or Wakan Tipi?
Is it Carver's Cave or Wakan Tipi?
After a lengthy war between England and France (which had laid claim to the area that included today’s St. Paul), they ceded the land to England in the treaty of 1763. Eager to find out the nature of what they saw as their colonial possession, the…