Pipestone Commercial Historic District

ON THE mountains of the prairie, 4G west). The elevation of Pipestone on the great red l'ipest(jne quarry, above sea level is 1740 feet.' As a railroad where, the poet tells us, in ages center it takes high rank, four .separate past the Great Spirit stood and called the systems having lines to the city. In the tribes of men together, is the city of state of Minnesota are only two cities - - Pipestone, capital of Pipestone county. Minneapolis and St. Paul - that have History records that wherever the North greater railroad facilities, and only two American Indians were in the habit of others - ilankato and Albert Lea - that gathering in large numbers, for places of have as many railroads as Pipestone. The residence, council, or worship, those spots railroad com]>anies that operate lines to have invariably Ijeen selected by white Pipestone are tlie Great Northern, the Chimen on which to locate their centers of cago, Milwaukee & St. P'aul, the Chipopulation. There is scarce an instance cago. Rock Island & Pacific, and the Chito the contrary, and, indeed, it would cago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, have been remarkable had a city not been The city, therefore, enjoys excellent shipfounded at the famous quarries. For ping facilities, a circumstance to which wliere is now the modern city of Pipestone, is due much of Pipestone's ]>rosperity and the aborigines were wont to gather to re- growth.

Passage source: An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911.

Centennial streets. On June 4 nf tlie same year D. E. Sweet, his wife and little son, and John Lowry took up their residence at the point where it was determined to found the town, a point fortyfive miles from the nearest railroad and also a long distance from the nearest white settlement. ]\rr. Sweet tore down the Bennett cabin, wliich had been donated him l)y Jlr. Bennett, and erected a more substantial home, and in December Mr. Jmwry erected the town's second building - a small cabin. In August, 1874, when there was only one building in Pipestone (and in Pipestone county), through the instrumentality of Mr. Sweet, the Pipestone postoffice was established and Mr. Sweet received the commission as postmaster.-

Passage source: An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911.

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