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LiDAR map of the Red Rock Ridge and its cultural sites

LiDAR map of the Red Rock Ridge and its cultural sites, ca. 2018. Photograph by MnTOPO/Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Main outcrop at Jeffers Petroglyphs

Main outcrop at Jeffers Petroglyphs, ca. 2018.

Digitally enhanced petroglyphs

Digitally enhanced petroglyphs at the Jeffers site, ca. 2018.

Jeffers Petroglyphs

Jeffers Petroglyphs is an internationally significant Native American sacred site and the location of the largest group of Indigenous petroglyphs (rock carvings) in the Midwestern United States. Situated in Dakota homeland, it is sacred to multiple Native American nations, including the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Iowa, and Ojibwe.

Car driving through a snowbank

A car drives through a break in a snowbank at Sogge Corner in Windom on February 8, 1936.

Snow removal on Highway 60 between Windom and Mountain Lake

A snow-blowing machine removes snow on Highway 60 between Windom and Mountain Lake, February 8, 1936.

Train blocked by snow near Windom

Cottonwood County residents pose in front of a train blocked by snow near Windom, February 1936.

Cottonwood County Blizzard of 1936

Early twentieth-century winters in Minnesota were a hardship for the state’s residents―including those of Cottonwood County. Newcomers, hearing stories about the weather, soon learned that the accounts weren't exaggerated. A few storms stand out, but the blizzard of 1936 topped them all.

Barn on the Carlos Avery Game Farm

The original rectangular barn, designed by architect Walter MacLeith. Photograph by Vickie Wendel, Anoka County Historical Society, October 23, 2016. Used with the permission of Anoka County Historical Society.

Carlos Avery Game Farm’s field station and laboratory.

Field station and laboratory with sign reading “Carlos Avery Wildlife HQ.” Photograph by Vickie Wendel, Anoka County Historical Society, October 23, 2016. Used with the permission of Anoka County Historical Society.

Gale Family Library