On North Walnut Street (State Highway 25) north of East Church Street, on the right when traveling north.
In 1867 a New York architect sent the plans for a new church in Belle Plaine to Bishop Whipple. The church was built in 1868 on land contributed by Territorial Judge Andrew G. Chatfield, founder of Belle Plaine. The congregation organized in 1858 . . . — — Map (db m65868) HM
On South Varner Street at 1st Street East on South Varner Street.
This site donated by Clement A. Nachbar, Mankato, Minn. Honoring the memory of his parents Mathias Nachbar & Wilhelmina Mertens Nachbar, who with their pioneer parents settled in Jordan vicinity, Minnesota Territory, in 1855. Dedicated to the early . . . — — Map (db m68767) HM
Near Interstate 35 at milepost 75,, 1.6 miles south of East 260th Street, on the right when traveling south.
When the first explorers came to what became Minnesota, they found a land with three very different personalities. To the north were the great forests of white pine and other conifers that later attracted armies of lumberjacks and made Minnesota a . . . — — Map (db m15380) HM
On Main Street East (State Highway 13/19) at Rising Moon Alley, on the right when traveling west on Main Street East.
As the first link of a multi-use recreational trail, Greenway Park lies on the eastern border of what was once known as "Frogtown", long a part of the Nicholas Daleiden farm, the property is directly north of what was once the Dr. E.E. Novak "Red . . . — — Map (db m210100) HM
On Lexington Avenue North at 3rd Street Northeast, on the right when traveling north on Lexington Avenue North.
Northside Park was originally part of the Vrtis Addition. Albert Vrtis, among the first group of Bohemian settlers who arrived in 1856, operated New Prague's first store from his log home on the present day corner of Main Street and Columbus Avenue. . . . — — Map (db m210099) HM
On 4th Avenue Northwest (State Highway 21) just north of Main Street West (Colvill Memorial Highway) (State Highway 13/19), on the right when traveling north.
In 1856, Anton Philipp of Bavaria, New Prague's first settler, built a dugout log home along the banks of the tributary to Raven Stream. The first Bohemian settlers also built their first homes along the creek later in the same year. The site became . . . — — Map (db m210757) HM
On Church Avenue North at 4th Street Northeast, on the left when traveling north on Church Avenue North.
The first burial in this cemetery was in 1884. Remains and monuments with death dates older than 1884 were moved here from the old church yard cemetery before the current (third) church was built in 1906. The St. Wenceslaus Cemetery Chapel was . . . — — Map (db m240649) HM
On Xenwood Avenue at South Frontage Road, on the left when traveling south on Xenwood Avenue.
During World War II, some 5,000-6,000 Japanese American soldiers, members of the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service, were given intensive and accelerated classes in the Japanese language at Camp Savage.
Their subsequent work translating . . . — — Map (db m41673) HM
Near County Road 101 (Business U.S. 169) at Sarazin Street, on the right when traveling west.
During the Prohibition era, Shakopee had a reputation as the "Little Chicago." "Shakopee was a wide-open town!" said Hilary Drees. Shakopee was full of illegal gambling, drinking, music, and dancing when the 18th Amendment made it illegal to make, . . . — — Map (db m213097) HM
Near County Road 101 (Business U.S. 169) at Sarazin Street, on the right when traveling west.
"The power of the Dakotas had always dwelt in the land, from the great forest to the open prairies. Long before the white man ever dreamed of our existence, the Dakota roamed this land." —Waŋdbi Wakiya The Dakota lived in Tíŋta . . . — — Map (db m213096) HM
On County Route 101, 0.2 miles east of County Route 17, on the right when traveling east.
These foundations mark the site of a two-story frame building erected by the Reverend Samuel W. Pond in 1847. It served as a Presbyterian mission to the Shakopee Sioux, and as Pond's home until his death in 1891. An eight-foot stockade enclosed . . . — — Map (db m19789) HM
Near County Road 101 (Business U.S. 169) at Sarazin Street, on the right when traveling west.
In the late 1600s, the Mdewankanton Dakota moved from Mde Wakaŋ (Mille Lacs Lake) to along the Mnisota Wakpa, later called the Minnesota River. One planting village was located on the north side of the river in the area later called Shakopee. . . . — — Map (db m213090) HM
Near County Road 101 (Business U.S. 169) at Sarazin Street, on the right when traveling west.
The first steamboat Argo churned the muddy waters of the Rivière Saint-Pierre (St. Peter's River) in 1842, eventually arriving at Sakpe II's village of Tíŋta Otuŋwe. On July 22, 1850, the steamboat Yankee started at the . . . — — Map (db m213095) HM
On 1st Avenue E. at Lewis Street S., on the right when traveling west on 1st Avenue E..
Samuel Pond was born in Washington, Connecticut, in 1808. During his early years, he worked as a clothing merchant, a farmer, and teacher in Washington. At the age of twenty-five, he began travelling and landed in Galena, Illinois, in 1833. He . . . — — Map (db m240384) HM
This monument is dedicated to those from Shakopee who died while in military service of our country.
[emblems of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Ladies Auxiliary V.F.W., American Legion Auxiliary]
W. . . . — — Map (db m49792) HM
Near County Road 101 (Business U.S. 169) at Sarazin Street, on the right when traveling west.
The first stagecoach arrived at Shakopee on October 6, 1853. In 1936 E. Judson Pond, at age 90, remembered the four-horse led stagecoach arriving. It stopped at the stagecoach barn which was next to the St. Paul Hotel on Fuller and Third Street. . . . — — Map (db m213098) HM
Near County Road 101 (Business U.S. 169) at Sarazin Street, on the right when traveling west.
”The squeaking of the wheels could be heard in Shakopee before the carts crossed Murphy's Ferry over a mile away. They could be smelled almost as far away, too!" —Julius Coller II When Minnesota was a territory with rivers and trails across . . . — — Map (db m213159) HM
Near County Road 101 (Business U.S. 169) at Sarazin Street, on the right when traveling west.
For many years, steamboats along the Minnesota River were the most efficient way for people and goods to reach the young city. However, in the mid-1860s, a new method of transportation arrived — the railroad. The first steam train rolled from . . . — — Map (db m213160) HM
Near County Road 101 (Business U.S. 169) at Sarazin Street, on the right when traveling west.
American Indian and Dakota people lived in the river valley for centuries. Tíŋta Otuŋwe was a summer planting village on Mnisota Wakpa, which later was called the Rivière Saint-Pierre and is now called the Minnesota River. The 600 Dakota . . . — — Map (db m213157) HM
Near County Road 101 (Business U.S. 169) at Sarazin Street, on the right when traveling west.
When glaciers melted, the meltwater created Lake Agassiz, which was bigger than the Great Lakes. The lake drained over the years, creating the massive River Warren. The river carved out the Minnesota River Valley and started from the bluffs by . . . — — Map (db m213089) HM
Near County Road 101 (Business U.S. 169) at Sarazin Street, on the right when traveling west.
Hazen P. Mooers and Mahpiya-hota Wiŋ II (Fall 1846 — Spring 1849) A former trader from the American Fur Company, Hazen P. Mooers was sent to instruct the Dakota in "modern" agricultural techniques in the fall of 1846. Hazen and his wife . . . — — Map (db m213158) HM
Imagine a long-ago village along the river, shaded by majestic oak trees. People have lived here for thousands of years.
In the early 1800's, this landscape was home to a band of Dakota Indians called the Wahpeton, or People of the Leaves. . . . — — Map (db m225967) HM
Near County Highway 101 near Shenandoah Road, on the right when traveling west.
In the 1800s, doing laundry took much more time and effort than it does today. Heaving tubs of water, scrubbing garments and hanging it all out to dry was hard work. Many people dreaded washing clothes and paid the laundress to do the job. . . . — — Map (db m241615) HM