Elevator and Lake Superior & Mississippi Depot, Stillwater, MN. Elevator was erected in 1870 and has a capacity of 38,000 bushels. Lake Superior & Mississippi Division of the Northern Pacific Railroad was completed to Stillwater in 1871.
Looking north from intersection of Main and Myrtle Streets. Three story brick Masonic Hall is on the left. Smoke is billowing from a fire near Staples Mill.
Judge William McCluer's Residence, SW Corner of North Third and Mulberry Street. Before he became a judge, McCluer, an attorney, was mayor of Stillwater in 1876.
Logs were shipped by rail from northern Minnesota to Stillwater and made into rafts. They were then floated down the St. Croix and Mississippi Rivers. The rafts usually consisted of 8 to 10 strings of logs fastened side by side, each string measuring 16 across and about 400 feet long. Some of these enormous rafts stretched 4 or 5 acres in size.
Lumber was rafted downstream from Stillwater. Boards were arranged in cribs or heavy crates, each 16 feet wide and 32 feet long. A lumber raft might contain as many as 200 cribs.
At the boom, floating timbers chained between piers caught and contained logs for sorting and measuring and rigging into rafts. At one time, the Stillwater boom extended a distance of 9 miles and employed 400 men to sort, scale and raft timber.
Registration Affidavit of Alien Enemy of Gustav Grunke, sworn to W.E. McNaughton, Chief of Police, Stillwater, Minnesota on the 27th day of February, 1918. Document is 4 pages in length and includes personal and employment information, a photograph and fingerprints.
Order changing the hour of closing of pool and billiard halls, public dance halls from ten o'clock p.m. to eleven o'clock p.m., dated November 27, 1917.
District Communications Superintendent's explanation of the President's Executive Order, dated April 6th, 1917, regarding use of radio communication during the period of war.
Letter dated February 27, 1918 informing the Chief of Police that Gerald McGee, 920 Laurel Street, Stillwater, MN has purchase wireless apparatus and requesting an investigation.
W.E. McNaughton, Chief of Police, Stillwater, Minnesota
Date Created:
1918-03-23
Description:
Memo regarding Herman Lindabauer, who transferred from Foley, Minnesota to Town of Grant, Washington County, Minnesota and reported to W.E. McNaughton, Chief of Police, Stillwater, Minnesota on the 23rd day of March, 1918.
Letter signed by Joseph A. Wessel, United States Marshal to Stillwater Police Department regarding the failure of Edward Wagner to register on time, dated March 26, 1918.
Instructions to the Chief of Police of all municipalities greater than 10,000 in population from the War Department regarding cooperation with military intelligence.