Cycling routes around the Twin Cities

Cycling routes around the Twin Cities

Cycling routes around the Twin Cities. Map created in 1899 by the St. Paul Cycle Path Association. Original available at the Minnesota Historical Society library as G4144 .T89E63 1899 .S75 2F.

Two women with bicycles near Mni Owe Sni (Coldwater Spring)

Two women with bicycles near Mni Owe Sni (Coldwater Spring)

Two women with bicycles near Mni Owe Sni (Coldwater Spring), 1899.

Horse-drawn wagons, bicycles, automobiles, and a streetcar on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis

Horse-drawn wagons, bicycles, automobiles, and a streetcar at the intersection of Nicollet Avenue and Sixth Street in Minneapolis, 1905. By that year, all of these vehicles were jockeying for right of way on the city's crowded streets.

How Transportation Has Shaped the State

Moving through Minnesota: Transportation in the Land of Lakes

Humans have always been mobile creatures. Although some claim to prefer sedentary activities, most actually find it difficult to stay in one place for too long. Minnesotans are no different in this regard from anyone else. They vary only in the particulars. People have moved into, out of, and within the borders of the land we now call Minnesota for centuries. Their movements—and the ways they have moved—constitute the history of transportation in the state.

Arrowhead Country tourism brochure

Arrowhead Country tourism brochure

Arrowhead Country tourism brochure, ca. 1926. Forms part of “Pamphlets relating to the Arrowhead Region in Minnesota, 1909–” (F614.A7), pamphlets collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Canoers completing a portage in the Superior National Forest

Canoers completing a portage in the Superior National Forest

Canoers completing a portage in the Superior National Forest, ca. 1930.

Tourists on the Lake Street bridge, Minneapolis

Tourists on the Lake Street bridge, Minneapolis

Tourists pose by automobiles near the Lake Street bridge in Minneapolis, ca. 1925.

Belle of Minnetonka (steamboat)

Belle of Minnetonka (steamboat)

The steamboat Belle of Minnetonka on Lake Minnetonka, ca. 1885.

Great Northern Railway Company money order receipt

Great Northern Railway Company money order receipt

Great Northern Railway Company money order receipt, 1901.

Map of Victory Memorial Parkway

Map of Victory Memorial Parkway

1921 map showing the location of Victory Memorial Parkway relative to the North Loop of Minneapolis. The dashed lines indicate streetcars lines that many of the over 30,000 dedication ceremony attendees could have used to get to what was then the edge of development in Minneapolis. Also shown are the location of the ceremony’s grandstand and speaker’s stand at the northwest corner of the parkway at the site of the memorial flagpole base.

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