Philadelphia : C. & A. Conrad & Co. , 1810. 12.4 x 30 inches . Minnesota Historical Society . James Allen . Map of the Route Passed Over by an Expedition into the Indian Country in 1832 to the Source of the Mississippi .
Grand Avenue has been a street reinventing itself to match the times since it was first platted. This book identifies those factors that saved the street from urban blight, crime, and decay
The book includes sections on: population and migration; environment; agriculture, and society; cultural geography and place; urban and economic geography; development geography; and political geography.
With many vivid photographs and illustrations, the book concludes with historical walking tours of the Lowry Hill, Kenwood, East Lowry Hill, Lake of the Isles, East Calhoun, and Cottage City neighborhoods.
This magnificent volume brings together for the first time stunning but rarely seen maps of Minnesota through five centuries, showing what happened in the past and what was planned for the future.