Transportation
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About 150 feet north of this park stood the old boat landing. From the earliest years of the area until the 1870's, boat transportation was the main source of commercial transportation. The first steamboat to come up the Minnesota River was the Anthony Wayne in July 1850; it traveled as far as Mankato and returned. In one year, more than 400 boats made trips up the Minnesota River and back. In 1861, 53,600 bushels of small grain were shipped by steamboat from St. Peter. In 1897, the Henrietta was the last steamboat to come up the river and return.
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St. Peter, Minnesota · United States
