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Dorothy Molter

Dorothy Molter at the door of her summer tent on Knife Lake, ca. 1985.

Pennsylvania native Dorothy Molter spent over fifty years in Northern Minnesota, where she helped to run the Isle of Pines resort and provided nursing care for those in need. From the 1950s through the mid-1980s, she made batches of homemade root beer at her cabin on Knife Lake that drew thousands of tourists, anglers, and canoeists each summer and earned her the nickname “the Root Beer Lady.”

Geocaching History Challenge

The Geocaching History Challenge project places an official geocache in all Minnesota State Parks. This photo shows the cache container, the Minneopa State Park-specific card, and the geocache log, April 8, 2017. Photograph by Karin J. Green.

Color image of a Bison Range sign at Minneopa State Park, April 8, 2017.

Bison Range sign photograph

Bison Range sign at Minneopa State Park, April 8, 2017. The park has a drive-through bison range for visitors to view the reintroduced American plains bison. The range is in the northern section of the park. Photograph by Karin J. Green.

Bison at Minneopa State Park

American plains bison herd at Minneopa State Park, near Mankato, ca. 2015. The bison were reintroduced to the park in 2015. Photograph courtesy of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Color image of a pinback button promoting the 1967 fundraising campaign to expand Minneopa State Park by almost 800 acres.

Minneopa State Park button

Pinback button promoting the 1967 fundraising campaign to expand Minneopa State Park by almost 800 acres. Photograph by Karin J. Green, May 10, 2017.

Advertisement for fundraising campaign

Advertisement for fundraising campaign printed in March 23, 1967 edition of the Mankato Free Press. The campaign raised money that was used along with state and federal funds to purchase almost 800 acres of land to expand Minneopa State Park. Photograph by Karin J. Green, May 10, 2017.