1896 Map of St. Paul

About this map

St. Paul and its surrounding townships appear here at a critical moment of urban and industrial expansion during the mid-1890s. The confluence of the Mississippi River and Minnesota River serves as the geographic anchor, overlooked by the Fort Snelling Military Reservation. While the northern half of the map shows the dense street grids of the Twin Cities beginning to consolidate, the southern reaches in Eagan and Inver Grove remain a landscape of named family lakes and small settlements like Westcott and Marcott.