Exterior of the Bandana Square shopping complex, 1984. Photograph by Kay Shaw.

Inside the Como Shops complex of the Northern Pacific Railway, located just south of Como Park in the St. Paul Midway, 1948. A railroad crane is parked next to the powerhouse building. Photographed by the St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press.

Solomon Comstock and other Moorhead residents, ca. 1889. Photograph by O. E. Flaten. Used with the permission of the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County.

Solomon Comstock, James H. Sharp, and S. G. Roberts, 1880. Photograph by O. E. Flaten. Used with the permission of the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County.

Solomon Comstock, ca 1890. Photograph by C. M. Bell. Used with the permission of the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County.

Relatively complete, un-smoked kaolin pipe found during excavations at the Réaume site, 2012. It is similar to ones that were popular in the late eighteenth century. Photograph by Don Hoffmann.

Silver cross pendant found at the Réaume site, 2012. It is similar to those recovered at other late eighteenth-century trading posts. Photograph by Don Hoffmann.

Two metal projectile points from the Réaume site, 2012. By the late twentieth century, metal detecting had disturbed some of the features of the Réaume site. Some artifacts were later recovered and are now preserved along with artifacts from the formal excavations at the Wadena County Historical Society. Photograph by Don Hoffmann.

Excavation unit at Réaume site, 2012. Graduate students in archaeology from the University of Minnesota investigated 26 excavation units and over 100 shovel test pits during 2011–2012. Photograph by Amélie Allard.