A History Lover's Guide to Minneapolis by Sherman Wick

Author:Sherman Wick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2019-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

YOUR GUIDE TO HISTORY

Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary

1 Theodore Wirth Parkway

Minneapolis, MN 55422

(612) 230-6400

www.minneapolisparks.org

Free

In early 1907, Eloise Butler petitioned the park board for space to establish a botanical garden. The park board granted the request and set aside three acres of bog, meadow and hillside for the Wild Botanical Garden—now the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary—the first public wildflower garden in the United States. The park is a true natural habitat in the middle of an urban landscape. It offers a floating walkway that takes you past the nesting grounds of wood ducks, red-wing blackbirds and a variety of other native birds and animals that make the park their home.

Fort Snelling National Cemetery

7601 34th Avenue S

Minneapolis, MN 55450

(612) 726-1127

www.cem.va.gov/CEMs/nchp/ftsnelling.asp

Fort Snelling National Cemetery is the final resting place for members of the armed forces and their eligible spouses and children.

Lakewood Cemetery

3600 Hennepin Avenue S

Minneapolis, MN 55408

(612) 822-2171

www.lakewoodcemetery.org

Founded in 1871, Lakewood Cemetery is the final home for many of Minneapolis’s most prominent citizens, politicians and families. Some of the notable people buried here are Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Dunwoody Institute founder William Dunwoody, musician Tiny Tim and suffragette Clara Ueland. Memorials to the Grand Army of the Republic, the Brotherhood of the Fraternal Order of Elks and the Washburn A Mill Explosion Memorial Obelisk can also be found on the grounds.

Pioneers & Soldiers Memorial Cemetery

2945 Cedar Avenue S

Minneapolis, MN 55407

(612) 729-8484

www.friendsofthecemetery.org

Free, open April 15 to October 15

Since the first burial in 1853, Pioneers & Soldiers Memorial Cemetery (formerly Layman’s Cemetery) is the final resting place for over twenty thousand of Minneapolis’s first residents, including early settlers, African Americans and members of the abolitionist movement, veterans of the War of 1812 to World War I and several thousand immigrants from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe; more than ten thousand of the graves belong to children. The graves of many prominent territorial pioneers, including Charles Christmas, Edwin Hedderly and Philander Prescott, can be found here. Because only about one out of every nine graves is marked, a visit to the caretaker’s office to see the cemetery’s plat book is necessary if you’re looking for a specific grave. In 2002, the cemetery was given the designation of a Historic Place by the National Register of Historic Places.

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