Minnesota’s First Commercial Sawmill – Marine on St. Croix, MN
N 45° 11.843 W 092° 46.120
15T E 518169 N 5004903
There are two identical markers, one at the beginning and the other at the end of the historical trail that leads through the woods.
Waymark Code: WMP2Q9
Location: Minnesota, United States
Date Posted: 06/18/2015
Views: 1
There are two identical markers, one at the beginning and the other at the end of the historical trail that leads through the woods. They tell about the beginning of the lumber industry and the local sawmill; their text reads as follows:
Minnesota’s First Commercial Sawmill
Sawmilling began here on August 24, 1839, when the Marine Lumber Company cut its first pine log.
In the autumn of 1838 two lumbermen from Marine, Illinois, David Hone and Lewis Judd, arrived in the St. Croix River valley, attracted by it's abundant resources of white pine. They selected this site, then known as Fall River, to build a sawmill and named it after their hometown. Lumber was floated down the St. Croix River and then shipped by rail west to the prairies. It was used to build towns and cities, and it enabled settlers who had been living in sod houses to erect wood-frame homes. For more than five decades, St. Croix pine lumber supported the burgeoning economy of Minnesota.
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