Materials relating to Gooseberry Falls State Park, 1938.

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Materials relating to Gooseberry Falls State Park, 1938.

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A typed paper (13 leaves) by Edwin S. Cay of the National Park Service, read at a meeting of the North Shore Historical Assembly at the park (July 29, 1938), describes the region of Gooseberry River and Falls, purchase of the land by the State of Minnesota from the estate of Wisconsin Senator William F. Vilas, and the development of the state park. The paper is accompanied by a copy of a letter (8 leaves; July 5th, 1938) to Cay from Henry S. Butler, a lawyer who represented the Vilas estate in connection with the Gooseberry Falls property, that gives information on William F. Vilas and the acquisition of the park property.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Butler, Henry S.

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Vilas, William F. (William Freeman), 1840-1908

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Wisconsin law professor and Civil War lieutenant colonel who was appointed Postmaster-General by President Cleveland in 1885 and then in December, 1887, was transferred to the Department of the Interior. From the description of Letter, March 29, 1888. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 56089358 James Barron Hope was born 23 March 1829 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the grandson of Commodore James Barron (1769-1851) and son of Wilton Hope and Jane Armis...

Cay, Edwin S.

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