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.

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.

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 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.

WPA plaque near the Minneopa Falls at Minneopa State Park, April 8, 2017. Photograph by Karin J. Green.

View of Minneopa Falls on the Minneopa River in winter, ca. 1920.

Postcard of Minneopa Falls, Minnesota State Park, Mankato, Minnesota, ca. 1915.

Negotiating the purchase of Minneopa State Park, October 13, 1905. Photograph by J.P Hodge, Depot Agent, on platform of Minneopa Depot, South Bend, Minnesota. Seated left to right: State Attorney General E. T. Young; State Auditor Samuel G. Iverson; Governor John A. Johnson; General James H. Baker; Orange Little; John C. Wise Jr. of Mankato Review. Standing left to right: Thomas Hughes of local committee; F. G. Cuttle of Railway Construction; Robert L. Williams, in front of Cuttle; Chairman of County Commissioners William. W. Paddock; Dr. J. W. Andrews of local committee; Joseph E. Reynolds of Mankato Free Press; William. L. Johnson, superintendent of Railway Construction Company of Winston Brothers; Charles. N. Andrews of local committee.

Minneopa Falls, ca. 1865. Photograph by Whitney’s Gallery.

Minneopa Falls, Minnesota, ca. 1865.