Protecting Consumers and Competition

Make No Little Plans

This is the Federal Trade Commission Building, home of the agency that defends the public against unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices. One of the older independent Federal agencies, the FTC ...

Peter M. Gideon

This Tablet Commemorates

Peter M. Gideon

Who Grew The Original

Wealthy Apple Tree

From seed, on this his homestead

— in 1868 —

Erected by

The Native Sons of Minnesota

— June 1912 —

Marker is at the intersection of Manitou Road (County Road 19) and Glen Road, on ...

Peter M. Gideon and the Wealthy Apple

In 1853, Peter Miller Gideon and his wife, Wealthy, arrived in Minnesota from Ohio and settled on the shores of Lake Minnetonka. Long interested in fruitgrowing, Peter Gideon determined to satisfy the craving of pioneer families for apples and other ...

The Episcopal Church of the Holy Nativity

The Reverend W. R. Gardner founded the Episcopal Church of the Holy Nativity in 1882 to serve the Canadian Anglicans who had relocated to the area after the Civil War to cut and haul timber. Services were held once a ...

Preston and Vella Ruth Hafen Home

The term Period Revival refers to a wide range of historically based house styles favored by the American public for nearly half a century. A number of these styles, including Spanish Colonial, English Tudor, Mission, Pueblo, and French Norman were ...

The Settling of Santa Clara / First Public Buildings / Missionar

[Side A:]The Settling of Santa ClaraThomas Carlyle said of the Switzers, "They are honest people... they are not philosophers or tribunes; but frank, honest landsmen."

In April 1861 a company of Mormon converts from Switzerland, under the direction of mission ...

Sharp County Court House

The first court house in Sharp County was erected at Evening Shade in 1868. About 1890 another court house was built at Hardy, in the Northern end of the county. And since then the county has maintained two seats of ...

Praying John Horrigan

The kneeling figure of Ellis folklore who stumped the curious

Though little is known of John's life prior to his arrival in Ellis during the 1870's, it is known that he worked as an Army muleskinner and also spent some time ...

Washington Reformed Presbyterian Church

This tablet is made to preserve the memory of pioneers, God fearing people from Scotland and Ireland who organized this church in 1841, as a place to meet together and worship

Andrew McCornack • Robert Shedden •

William Fraser •

George ...

Battle of Palo Alto

Palo Alto

8 May 1846

Marker can be reached from Pitcher Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org