A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
Sauna on the shore of North Star Lake in Mesaba Co-op Park, 1937.
Sauna stove, 1974. Photograph by Matti E. Kaups.
A Savanna Portage boardwalk installed to help travelers traverse a swamp, 2018. Photograph by Jon Lurie; used with the permission of Jon Lurie.
Savanna Portage Trail, 1962. Photograph by Eugene D. Becker.
Savanna Portage Trail, 2018. Photograph by Jon Lurie; used with the permission of Jon Lurie.
Postcard depicting the sawmill at Crookston, 1912.
Crew of the Walker, Judd & Veazie sawmill at Marine Mills (Marine on St. Croix), ca. 1885. Photograph by John Runk.
Sawmill on the Red Lake Reservation, c.1945.
Sayles Hill Gymnasium, ca. 1910. The gym, on the campus of Carleton College, in Northfield, hosted the first state high school basketball tournament in 1913.