For countless generations, people have come to this place on the banks of the Minnesota River. Its deep human connection to the land is reflected in evidence ranging from ancient woolly mammoth hunts along the edge of retreating glaciers to hallowed burial grounds on the fringe of a thriving Dakota village, a colonist-era ferry crossing, and a re-created 1880s river town assembled here in the 1970s. For millennia, many different people and cultures have been drawn here, forming a 10,000 year old history tied to the natural and cultural life of this land.