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Timeline

  • Pre-colonization: Indigenous peoples including those of the Hopewell tradition and later Dakota, Fox, and Sioux lived, hunted and fished the Lake Pepin area.
  • 1680: Father Louis Hennepin remarks about the beauty of Lake Pepin area. 
  • 1725: The Count Frontenac explorers set up a post on Sand Point circa with the goal to of heading west to the Pacific. 
  • 1837: Fur trading post established. 
  • 1854: A limestone quarry on the SE slope of Point-No-Point provided foundations as far away as New York City. 
  • 1855: A hunting lodge, St. Hubert’s Lodge was built by Israel Garrard. 
  • 1857: Westervelt & Garrard buy 4000 acres and designated 320 for the town site. 
  • 1858: Statehood happens. Florence Township established. 
  • 1859: Village name changed from Westervelt to Frontenac. Frontenac became known for fur trading, logging, limestone & hospitality.
  • 1867: A 3-story Lakeside Hotel was the first resort hotel in the upper Midwest. 
  • 1879-1939: Became a reknown exclusive resort community. A Chicago destination. 
  • 1956: 200 acres of farmland donated to what became Frontenac State Park.


Source: Bonnie Harper-Lore "Minnesota Settlement, Prairies & Restoration" Wild Ones Twin Cities



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