|
From
expansive lakes to quiet streams and a multitude of state forests,
Minnesota’s PlayLand offers the outdoors lover something for every mood
and every season.
There are opportunities to enjoy a wide variety of songbirds, waterfowl,
and wildlife like turtle, otter, muskrat, beaver, mink, raccoon, squirrel,
rabbit, white tailed deer, black bear, and the majestic eagle.
The area is rich in history. Dakota Indians held much of it until the
Ojibwe moved westward into the region during the early 1700s. By the early
1800s, the Ojibwe controlled lands west of the Mississippi, just north of
the Crow Wing River and just south of the Pine River. One can still see
signs of their presence in several sites. Indian burial mounds reportedly
remain at several places along the Crow Wing River.
Fur traders entered the region in the early 1700s. The Northwest Company
did considerable business from the late 1700s to early 1800s. Lumbering
followed in the late 1800s.
By the twentieth century most of the virgin white and red pine were
depleted and the economy came to depend on agriculture.
|
