Beginning in 1930, the Minnesota Historical Society chose the sites and wrote the inscriptions and the State Highway Department made and set up the signs. By 1940 there were 112 of them on the state's trunk and U.S. highways, and a Work Projects Administration survey printed every inscription word for word. 107 of those markers now have permanent pages at TreeAlive, placing their 1940 text on georeferenced maps from the periods they commemorate.
107Marker pages
82,000+Historical map sheets
Minnesota Historical Records Survey Project, Work Projects Administration (1940)Credited on every page
Every dot is a live page. Click one to preview it or add it to a road trip; many dots hold several markers each; click a busy spot to zoom in. Prefer a list? Browse all 107 markers by county.
TreeAlive maps family trees. When a visitor's ancestors lived in Minnesota, the markers standing near those places surface automatically alongside their family's journey:
Mayo Home · near where a family lived in Le Sueur in the 1860s · Dr. William W. Mayo lived in this residence from about 1858 until 1863, and his son William J. was born here in 1861
When a marker stands near a place in your own tree, you have a personal reason to go see it. Open the live demo tree, choose the Crossings tab, and turn on Historical Markers to see the experience working (the demo family’s markers are in Pennsylvania; a Minnesota family sees Minnesota’s).
Browsing all 107 markers by county.
Scan: Mayo Home marker