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Creation: 1844 - 1858. Access. The collection is available for use in Special Collections at Minneapolis Central Library during the department's open hours. Biography. John Harrington Stevens (1820–1900) was the first non-Native resident on the west side of the Mississippi River in present-day Minneapolis.
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.
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).
Col. John Stevens. Col. John Stevens was born in 1749 into a family of some wealth. He was one of the earliest advocates of steam-powered transportation and railroad construction in the United States. He experimented with steamboats in the 1790s and in 1804 successfully operated such a craft—just a few weeks after Robert Fulton’s pioneering ...
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.
Dec 2, 2020 · Col. John H. Stevens built the house in the winter of 1849-50. Locals recognize the significance of the house as the first built by a white man west of the Mississippi River on land that would become Minneapolis. At various times, the Stevens House served as a polling place, a courthouse, and meeting place.
