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Place Name
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Grand Portage Monument
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Place Status (Type)
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state park
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Location
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Cook County, Minnesota (MN), United States, North America
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Latitude
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unknown
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Longitude
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unknown
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Grand Portage Monument
, Cook co., NE Minn., 34 mi/55
km ENE of Grand Marais, on L. Superior, surrounded by Grand Portage
Indian Reservation; 710 acres/287 ha. Portage on the route
to the Northwest used by explorers, missionaries, and fur traders.
Monument includes a reconstruction of North West Company trading post
on L. Superior and 9 mi/14.5 km Grand Portage
Trail to Pigeon R., 7 mi/11.3 km WNW of Grand
Portage. Grand Portage State Park to SW. Authorized 1951.
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