Savanna Portage materials, 1927, 1939-1940.

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Savanna Portage materials, 1927, 1939-1940.

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Materials relating to a project undertaken in 1940 to mark the route of the Savanna Portage in Aitkin County, Minnesota. The project participants were the Minnesota Historical Society, the Minnesota Division of Forestry, and Eagle Scouts from Region 10, Boys Scouts of America. The portage had originally been used by Indians and fur traders as a link between the East and West Savanna Rivers, making a larger connection between Lake Superior and Big Sandy Lake and the Mississippi River.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Minnesota Historical Society

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Larsen, Arthur C., 1909-

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Boy Scouts of America. Region Ten.

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Minnesota. Division of Forestry

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The Pine Island Civilian Conservation Corp camp was established on June 21, 1933 and operated until August 1934. The site sat idle until January 1935, when it became a transient camp under the Work Projects Administration (WPA) and State Emergency Relief Administration. On May 15, 1936, it was placed under the United States Department of Agriculture's Resettlement Administration, as Project LD-MN4, the Northern Minnesota Pine Island Settler Relocation Project. The purpose of the project was to p...

Prescott, H. H.

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Wilson, Don, 1906-2007

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Hart, Irving H. (Irving Harlow), 1877-1958

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