Mendota to Wabasha Military Road: Cannon River Section - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Mendota to Wabasha Military Road: Cannon River Section - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Mendota to Wabasha Military Road, Cannon River Section is a fragment of a road in Red Wing in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The road once stretched from Mendota to Wabasha and was planned in the earliest years of Minnesota Territory before Minnesota became a state. This particular fragment of road, which spans the Cannon River bottomlands, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It was listed as part of a statewide survey that identified historic fragments of the military wagon roads built between 1850 and 1861. The survey found that a road fragment could be considered historic if it was unpaved, that it is "long enough to evoke a sense of destination" where an observer at one end could not see the other end, and that the setting of the road had not been intruded upon with recent buildings or roads. Read more on Wikipedia
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