Itasca State Park Compass Rose - Lake Itasca, Minnesota
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msrubble
N 47° 14.409 W 095° 12.661
15T E 332664 N 5234222
Compass rose at Itasca State Park, Minnesota.
Waymark Code: WM9B83
Location: Minnesota, United States
Date Posted: 07/26/2010
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This compass rose is outside of Mary Gibbs Minnesota Headwaters Center in Itasca State Park, Lake Itasca, Minnesota. It is 6 feet in diameter. At each of the cardinal points is a quotation about the search for the source of the Mississippi River. The compass is chiseled in gray stone (possibly granite), which is set in a square of chiseled pink stone.
The Headwaters Center is near the headwaters of the Mississippi, where the river flows out of Lake Itasca to begin its journey to the Gulf of Mexico.