"Twin City Sight Seer"
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With its history and spectacular views, Indian Mounds Park, was popular from the outset. It became more heavily used when, in 1894, the Streetcar Railway Company started a special service to bring people into the local landmark. Visitors were now able to travel from downtown St. Paul in around fifteen minutes and often stayed for a full day.
Date: Approximately 1911
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
This file appears in: Indian Mounds Park: A Short History
Indian Mounds Park: A Short History
Some 12,000 years ago, groups of people followed the big game up the Mississippi River as the glaciers melted. If they happened to stop in what is today’s Indian Mounds Park they must have been awed by the panorama. There was a huge waterfall that…