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"Lake and Bike"
"Best door ever" I pass this door almost every day, and it always makes me smile.
"Geological Marker" The kids and I went on a hunt for a Geological Marker as directed by Dick Shanahan. "There's a brown electrical box a pace or two east of a street light post at the 10th Av S/34th St curve on the edge of the school yard. The marker is roughly midway between the box and the southern bench next to the sandbox. It's 6 or 7 paces south of a young tree that still shows signs of the white paint protecting it as a sapling. So, it's roughly 45 paces (15 yards) from the sidewalk on the western edge of the park. It has a triangle with a dot in the center, an 1898 date, "Minnesota Survey" and "Powderhorn" on it." - Dick Shanahan "From the headwaters to Alton (and on surveys later than 1891) the Mississippi River Commission used a standard benchmark designed by John A. Ockerson, a future member of the commission. This benchmark consisted of a vitrified tile that measured 4 inches thick and 18 inches square. A copper bolt was leaded into the center of the tile. The tile was buried 30 inches below the surface of the ground and was surmounted by a wrought iron pipe that measured 4 inches in diameter and 4 feet long. The pipe, which was expanded at its lower end to prevent its easy removal from the ground, was placed over the center of the tile. A brass cap, fastened into place by bolts, closed the top of the pipe. The brass cap was marked “Mississippi River Commission” and also contained markings depicting the year of the benchmark’s establishment and whether it was an ordinary level or precise level benchmark, or a triangulation station. The center of the top surface of the tile was marked in the same manners as the brass pipe cap." - Charles Camillo, Historian for the Mississippi River Commision