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| January 18, 2005 Event |
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| DENMARK TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWS |
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| Released: January 8, 2005 |
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| PHILANDER PRESCOTT INVITES YOU TO HEAR HIS STORY |
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| The Denmark Township Historical Society invites the
public to meet Philander Prescott, fur-trader, interpreter and founder of
the Wisconsin town that carries his name. Prescott, portrayed in costume
by David Geister, an interpreter at Fort Snelling, will spin tales of the
past on Tuesday, January 18, 7 p.m. at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 8435
St. Croix Trail S. in south Washington County. There is no charge for the
program. |
| Prescott will describe his adventures in traveling from
New York to Fort Snelling in 1820, when the area was a wilderness. |
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While serving at Fort Snelling, Prescott staked 1,200 acres of land to
establish the town of Prescott at the crucial confluence of the Mississippi
and St. Croix rivers. He built a cabin there in 1827. The village became
an important sawmilling town and major shipping port. More than 200 million
board feet of lumber were rafted down the St. Croix to Prescott in 1869-70. |
| Philander Prescott worked and lived with Native Americans,
yet, ironically, was one of the first individuals killed in the 1862 August
uprising along the Minnesota river. |
| The program is presented by the Denmark Township Historical
Society, a group dedicated to preserving historical buildings and stories
of the area's early years. The Society has published a 2005 historic calendar,
available at the Point Restaurant on highway 61 and at the Just Thinking...Books
and Ice Cream store at 1208 Vermilion in Hastings. Calendars can be ordered
by mail by phoning 651-436-6558. |
| More information about the Denmark Township Historical
Society is available from President Walter Pechacek, 651-437-8383. |
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