This plot of land is what remains of East Lake Okabnea and is dedicated to the memory of Benona Pierce St. John and his son Clair Hovey St. John. Benona P. St. John (1867-1949) was a model of the 19th century gentleman who valued character and integrity above all. He was an entrepreneur, the architect of the Heron Lake Game Laws that became the model for Minnesota State Game Laws, an ardent conservationist in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt, the owner of many grain elevators, and an innovator in soy beans, hybrid corn, and other crops. Clair H. St. John (1898-1963) shared his father's philosophy and was an innovative Worthington grain man, a grain elevator owner-operator and grain products manufacturer who pioneered truck delivery to farms and small towns, the use of science in agriculture, and grain drying. He also engaged in generally unheralded philanthropies and joined his father in making gifts of property and property rights to the City of Worthington.