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Aerial View, Chanhassen

Aerial View of Chanhassen, 1981. Photograph by Vincent H. Mart.

Aerial view, Carver

Aerial View of Carver, 1969. Photograph by Vincent H. Mart.

Woods, one-half mile southeast of Norwood

Woods in Carver County, c.1915.

Standard map of Carver County, Minnesota. St. Paul : Minnesota Map Publishing Co., 1913

Map of Carver County, 1913. Map by the Minnesota Map Publishing Company.

Carver County

Carver County, founded in 1855, is home to the Minnesota and Crow Rivers, along with 125 lakes. Located southwest of the Twin Cities, it is part of the seven-county metro area.

Northern Pacific Railroad' s colonists reception house, Glyndon.

Northern Pacific Railroad's colonist's reception house, Glyndon, Minnesota, 1876.

In 1873, George Rodgers led immigrants from southwest England to establish the Yeovil Colony in the Red River Valley on land purchased from the Northern Pacific Railroad. Despite high hopes, the settlement of New Yeovil crumbled soon after it began.

Sweasy, William D. (1916–1991)

By the 1970s, Red Wing's famed Main Street scarcely resembled its 1870s glory days. But Red Wing was revitalized in the following decades by the vision and initiative of the Red Wing Shoe Company's William D. Sweasy.