Wild River State Park
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Wild River State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, curving along 18 miles of the St. Croix River. This long, narrow park is shaped somewhat like a sideways 'S', with development largel
Wild River State Park protects shoreline along the St. Croix, a National Wild and Scenic River
Park trail following the route of the Point Douglas to Superior Military Road
1886 St. Croix River log jam
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On June 13, 1886, a log jam developed in the St. Croix River, close to Taylors Falls, Minnesota, and St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin. The river was used to transport large quantities of logs from the fores
Wild River State Park
…north was floated down the St. Croix River to sawmills in Stillwater. The lumber industry was bedeviled by massive log jams in 1867, 1877, 1883, and 1886. The 1883 jam, at Angle Rock in what is now Interstate Park, was the world's biggest log jam and took 57 days to break, during which the sawmill in…
The 1886 log jam on the St Croix River near Taylors Falls, Minnesota
Dalles of the St. Croix with the bend at Angle Rock
1886 log jam, Dalles of the St Croix, with bridge in background