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  2. National Park Service History Electronic Library & Archive

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    The St. Croix is not a large river in terms of its size, nor a great river in terms of its impact on the development of the United States. It flows for 165 miles from its source, a long narrow finger of water known as Upper Lake St. Croix, to the Mississippi River at Point Douglas, where the river, once again placid and lake-like ends its journey.
  3. National Park Service History Electronic Library & Archive

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    1. Saint Croix Island, in the St. Croix River at the border of the United States (Maine) and Canada (New Brunswick), is the location of one of the earliest European settlements in North America (1604), which led to a lasting French cultural presence on the continent. 2. The valuable insight gained from the Saint Croix Island settlement, including
  4. National Park Service History Electronic Library & Archive

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    By 1871, however, the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad opened for business. Duluth became the third largest city in Minnesota behind the Twin Cities and the reigning city on Lake Superior, not Bayfield, Wisconsin. The development of the Upper St. Croix north of St. Croix Falls was put on hold.
  5. National Park Service History Electronic Library & Archive

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    Map of lower St. Croix lumber sites. Figure 22. Map of upper St. Croix logging sites. Figure 23. Log jam at the Dalles, 1890. Figure 24. Bear-trap sluice gate, 1914. Figure 25. Map of St. Croix agricultural and timber lands. Figure 26. St. Croix Falls, 1848. Figure 27. Mouth of the St. Croix, 1848. Figure 28. Map of railroad construction in ...
  6. National Park Service History Electronic Library & Archive

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    1 Nelson, Winter in the St. Croix Valley, 41; James Allen, "Journal and letters of Lieutenant James Allen," Schoolcraft's Expedition to Lake Itasca: The Discovery of the Sources of the Mississippi, edited by Philip P. Mason (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1958), 221-2.. 2 Joseph N. Nicollet, The Journals of Joseph N. Nicollet: A Scientist on the Mississippi Headwaters With ...
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    Here on Saint Croix Island the French settlers met the wilder­ ness of North America in its most robust setting. Here was begun the chain of events which would culminate in the comparative success of Port Royal ( 1605) and the establishment of a solid French community at Quebec ( 1608). This Saint Croix Island was
  8. National Park Service History Electronic Library & Archive

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    Saint Croix Saint Croix Island International Historic Site Executive Summary General Introduction to the CLI The Cultural Landscapes Inventory (CLI) is a comprehensive inventory of all historically significant landscapes within the National Park System. This evaluated inventory identifies and documents each
  9. National Park Service History Electronic Library & Archive

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    The potential for conflict with loggers and the abuses of the whiskey traders inclined the United States government to remove the St. Croix bands from their homeland. The Chippewa objected citing the provision of the 1837 Treaty that allowed them to hunt and gather upon the sold lands until they were needed for settlement.
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    The United States Government rediscovered the St. Croix Chippewa in 1910 when Senator Robert M. La Follette held a Senate hearing on the condition of Indians in Wisconsin. The fact that the St. Croix Chippewa had in the past received little in the way of annuities prompted several congressional efforts to provide them with federal relief.
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    In the United States the Romantic Movement developed its own unique perspective on nature. ... Edward Sullivan published Rambles and Scrambles in North and South America that described his adventurous canoe trip down the Brule and St. Croix Rivers. And in 1853, Elizabeth F. Ellet traveled up the St. Croix in the comfort of a side-wheeler ...
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