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14. Cox family stories <br />15. Stueve family-1920s—owned former farmstead now ruins on property <br />16. Jacob Clitty Family later owned former farmstead now ruins on property; family history available <br />17. Galbraith probate of late 19th century excellent source, very detailed <br />18. Carol Bloomdahl's grandfather's story. He was an immigrant who migrated to Nebraska to farm <br />in the summer. <br />19.. Babcock stories <br />20. Perry Jones, a mulatto barber who worked in Elk River from 1886-1945; have photos and family <br />oral histories available <br />21. The Gruepner shoe store in Elk River made specialty shoes for log rollers who worked the log <br />jams in the Mississippi near Elk River <br />22. Wagner Family, the Methodist Church has the Wagner Family name on stained glass windows <br />Topic 2: Place <br />Theme 2: Being on the edge where three ecological land types meet enabled easy transportation and <br />access to natural resources and economic resources. <br />Subtheme 2.1. Indian tribes recognized that the area that later became Sherburne County was <br />strategically located on the edge of woodlands, prairie, and the Mississippi River, and the area <br />became a contested borderland between the Ojibwe and Dakota people. <br />Subtheme 2.2. Living on the edge of metro area, pineries, and western wheat fields provided access <br />for Sherburne County people to metro markets and jobs in other areas. <br />Subtheme 2.3. Trails, roads, and rails developed in the corridor along the edge of the Mississippi <br />River, prairie, pine forest, and deciduous forest. <br />Subtheme 2.4. Sherburne County's edge landscape included plentiful lakes, wetlands, and abundant <br />wildlife that have been key to the areas' history and development. <br />Topic 2: Place/Edge Subtopics <br />1. Rivers <br />2. Agriculture (truck crops on marginal land) <br />3. Transportation <br />4. Glacial (gravel, sand) <br />5. Natural history <br />6. Edge zones of climate <br />7. Oak savanna <br />8. Unusual amount of remnant prairie due to marginal farmland <br />9. Rural/urban edge <br />10. Waterways <br />11. Resort <br />12. Edges within edge (market areas on edges split county) <br />13. Trash <br />14. Recycling (RDF, fly ash, concrete) <br />15. Ice industry <br />16. Farmers rented horses to logging camps <br />17. Wild hay sold in Twin Cities <br />18. Farmers worked in pineries and threshed in the western prairies <br />19. Seed corn MN 13 and Whitecap Yellow Dent developed here due to early planting in sand <br />20. Ojibwe/Dakota no-man's land between their tribal claims to territory <br />Topic 2: Place/Edge Stories <br />1. Resort community <br />Sherburne County Historical Society Heritage Center Interpretive Plan, April 21, 2005, page 105 <br />