St. Paul from Dayton's Bluff
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A view of Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary from the top of Dayton's Bluff.
Date: Approximately 1894
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
This file appears in: Discover the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary
Discover the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary
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…