From 1856 to 1914, this site serve as the terminal point for the great Minnesota log drives down the St. Croix River and its tributaries. Including approximately 5.4 million acres, much of which were covered with heavy growths of white and Norway pine, this was earliest, most important, and longest   from cr.nps  

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