Research Catalog

Title

Tales of the road : Highway 61 / Cathy Wurzer.

Author

Wurzer, Cathy.

Publication

St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Minnesota Historical Society. Press.

Description

x, 134 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Highway 61 traces approximately 440 miles through Minnesota, from Pigeon Falls at the Canadian border south to La Crescent. Along the way, the road hugs the North Shore, zips through St. Paul, and navigates bluffs along the Mississippi River. While places such as Split Rock Lighthouse or Sugar Loaf Mountain offer well-documented stopping-off points, observant travelers may wonder about the historic buildings, abandoned sites, and decaying structures they see along the way." "In this companion book to the public television documentary, Cathy Wurzer unearths stories about these places and more as she travels down the road and into the past, spotlighting famous and fascinating locations, many of them little remembered today. Learn about bootleggers crossing the St. Croix by ferry or importing hooch from Canada onboard vessels designed in White Bear Lake. Visualize-or maybe even visit-the quaint tourist cabins, supper clubs, and lodges that served tourists who began motoring up the road in the 1920s. Take stock of historic and current industries: Russ Kendall's Smoke House in Knife River, a rutabaga plant in Willow River, the pottery factory in Red Wing. Each tale is illustrated with historic and current views to show how much - or how little - Highway 61 has changed. Here's one road trip you won't want to miss."--Jacket.

Subject

• Historic buildings > Minnesota > Anecdotes
• Historic buildings > Minnesota > Pictorial works
• Historic sites > Minnesota > Anecdotes
• Historic sites > Minnesota > Pictorial works
• Minnesota > Description and travel > Anecdotes
• Minnesota > History, Local > Anecdotes
• Minnesota > History, Local > Pictorial works
• United States Highway 61 > Description and travel > Anecdotes
• United States Highway 61 > Pictorial works
• Wurzer, Cathy > Travel > Minnesota > Anecdotes

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-129) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- The road -- [pt. 1]. North Shore -- Outlaw Bridge -- Hovland Dock -- Naniboujou Lodge -- St. Francis Xavier Church -- Grand Marias harbor -- Lutsen and White Sky Rock -- Schroeder Lumber Company bunkhouse -- Stickney store -- Taconite Harbor -- Colonial dining room -- Aztec hotel and cabinola court -- 3M and Crystal Bay -- Mattson fish house -- Split Rock lighthouse lens -- Split Rock river pilings -- Split Rock trading post -- Gooseberry Falls State Park refectory -- Two Harbors lighthouse -- Two harbors high school -- Kendall's smoke house -- [pt. 2]. Duluth to St. Paul -- Gardenwood motel and tourist court -- Gilmore Theater -- Lester River fish hatchery -- Duluth armory -- Aerial Lift Bridge -- Esko's Finns -- Barnum creamery -- Moose Lake depot -- Nemadji "Indian" pottery -- Willow River rutabaga plant -- Sandstone "61" -- The great Hinckley fire -- Tobie's -- Grant House -- Old Rush City ferry -- Carpenter's steakhouse -- White Bear Lake Township hall -- Johnson Boatworks -- KSTP Radio -- Dayton's Bluff Commercial Club -- [pt. 3]. Bluff Country -- Billy Dunn's playground -- Red Rock -- Rock Island and J.A.R. Bridge -- Le Duc mansion -- Ramsey Mills ruins -- Red Wing pottery -- Sheldon Theatre -- Florence Township hall -- Old Frontenac -- Frontenac stone gates -- Lake City clamming -- Reads Landing -- Wabasha Poor House -- Rollingstone Colony -- The Oaks -- Sugar Loaf -- Watkins -- Minne-O-Wah Club -- Emil and the Otters -- La Crescent apples -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Suggested reading -- Index -- Picture credits.

ISBN

• 9780873516266 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0873516265 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008010713

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library