Second Street in Winona. Photograph by Hoard & Tenney, ca. 1870.

Learn about the grassroots effort to preserve Marine Mill, the site of Minnesota's first commercial sawmill.

Marine on St. Croix. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy, June 19, 1932.

“El Espíritu Del Río” (The Spirit of the River) mural painted by Joshua Sarantitis at 178 Cesar Chavez Street, St. Paul. Photograph by Wayfinder user Nomiker, July 7, 2011.

“The Heroes of Freedom, Justice and Peace,” a mural painted on Burrito Mercado (175 Cesar Chavez Street) in St. Paul. Depicted are, from left to right, Diego Rivera, Aung San Suu Kyi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, Sister Giovanni Gourhan, Rigoberta Menchú, Dennis Banks, and Roberto Clemente. Google street view, 2019.

“Hunger Has No Color,” painted by John Acosta, Richard Schletty, and Armando Gutierrez at 344 South Robert Street, St. Paul, in 1985. Google street view, 2014.

“Midwest Canto al Pueblo,” originally painted by Paul Basques in 1979 at 176 Concord Street (later Cesar Chavez Street), St. Paul. Basques and Greta McLain covered the original with a glass mosaic in October 2010. Photograph by Waymarking user Nomiker, 2011.

“Aztec City,” a mural painted by John Acosta, Frank Sanchez, and Carlos Menchaca on the wall of a St. Paul building at 736 Robert Street between 1980 and 1983. Google street view, 2009.

Untitled mural by David Nemo painted at 478 South Robert Street on the West Side of St. Paul in 2008. Photograph by Waymarking user Nomiker, July 9, 2011.