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Stillwater Township: Site of Minnesota's earliest, longest-serving, and most important log boom, where lumber was stored and sorted 1856–1914 at the terminus of the St. Croix River's great log drives. [44] Now a highway wayside. 31: St. Croix Lumber Mills-Stillwater Manufacturing Company: St. Croix Lumber Mills-Stillwater Manufacturing Company
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Stillwater was officially incorporated as a city on March 4, 1854 (the same day as St. Paul). [citation needed] Stillwater is often called the "birthplace of Minnesota". [5] In 1848, a territorial convention that began the process of establishing Minnesota as a state was held in Stillwater, at the corner of Myrtle and Main streets.
The Stillwater Commercial Historic District encompasses 11 downtown blocks in Stillwater, Minnesota, United States. It comprises 63 contributing properties built from the 1860s to 1940. [ 2 ] It was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 for its local significance in the themes of architecture and ...
The Washington County Historical Society operated from a room at the Stillwater Public Library, collecting county-wide documents, photos, and family histories. [1] In 1941, the Society purchased the Warden's House Museum in Stillwater from the state, one of the state's oldest buildings and its second oldest continuously operating house museum.
Its county seat is Stillwater. [3] The largest city in the county is Woodbury, the eighth-largest city in Minnesota and the fourth-largest Twin Cities suburb. Washington County is included in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area. The forested St. Croix River valley, looking south towards Afton
Albert Lammers was born in Minnesota and married Emma Kroon in 1882. He spent decades in the lumber business with his brother George. [4] Primed by their success in Minnesota's initial logging region—the St. Croix Valley—lumbermen like the Lammers Brothers and Isaac Staples were instrumental in expanding the industry to other parts of the state.