Indian Mounds Park overlook

ID: 576
This file appears in: Beacon on the Bluff

A couple looking towards downtown Saint Paul from Indian Mounds Park. Airway Beacon in the background.

Photographer: August E. Hansen

Date: Approximately 1935

Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society

This file appears in: Beacon on the Bluff

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