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John Harrington Stevens (June 13, 1820 – May 28, 1900) was the first authorized colonial resident on the west bank of the Mississippi River in what would become Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was granted permission to occupy the site, then part of the Fort Snelling military reservation, in exchange for providing ferry service to St. Anthony ...
Biography. John Harrington Stevens (1820–1900) was the first non-Native resident on the west side of the Mississippi River in present-day Minneapolis. He operated a ferry across the river before the construction of the first Hennepin Avenue Bridge and subsequently became a colonel in the U.S. Army. He later served in the Minnesota Legislature.
John Harrington Stevens, the first official resident west of the Mississippi River in what would become Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was involved in the Mexican-American War, and he served in both the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1857-1858 and the Minnesota Senate in 1859-1860. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams ...
Dec 20, 2023 · Correspondence with Richard Chute, Henry M. Rice, John H. Stevens, Henry T. Welles, and others relates to local politics in Minnesota, to financial affairs of the St. Anthony Falls Water Power Company and the Mississippi Bridge Company, to the sale of land belonging to the Fort Snelling reservation (1857-1873).
Thehome of John H. Stevens in Minnehaha Park, a sprawling city park in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Colonel Stevens was the first settler in the area, west of the Mississippi River. His home became the center of social and political gatherings to the point that it became known as "The Birthplace of Minneapolis". Hennepin County United States ...
Dating back to 1850, the John H. Stevens House is one of the oldest surviving structures in Minneapolis, and the first in the area to be built west of the Mississippi River. John Harrington Stevens, sometimes called the “Father of Minneapolis,” constructed the house north of its present location, near Hennepin Avenue Bridge. Stevens acquired the land from the U.S. War Department, in ...
Dec 2, 2020 · The John H. Stevens House was transported by schoolchildren. This piece of rope, held in the collection at Hennepin History Museum, is a fragment of one of the ropes used the first time schoolchildren moved the house in 1896. Col. John H. Stevens built the house in the winter of 1849-50. Locals recognize the significance of the house as the ...
