In keeping with its tradition, the TRB History Committee has organized an informal and free history hike on Sunday, July 10, in Minneapolis, following the conference's welcome reception. The tour is scheduled to leave the lobby of the conference hotel on Sunday at 6:45 p.m. and will be led by Matt Anderson, Curator of the Minnesota Historical Society and Secretary of the TRB standing Committee on History.
Participants should wear comfortable shoes and casual clothes and may want to bring a bottle of water along. The tour will focus on the Minneapolis riverfront and the tour will cover approximately 12 blocks/1 mile one-way. The hike is expected to last around one hour, not including the 20 minutes it will take to walk back to the hotel from the river.
Points of interest to be viewed along the way will include:
o Nicollet Mall Station of the Hiawatha light rail transit line (2004)
o Soo Line Building (1915)
o Milwaukee Road Depot and train shed (1899), along with the freight house (1879)
o Site of the Great Northern Depot (1913, razed in 1978)
o Father Louis Hennepin Bridge (1990)
o Third Avenue Bridge (1918)
o Saint Anthony Falls (only waterfall on the Mississippi River)
o Great Northern Railway Stone Arch Bridge (1883)
o Upper Saint Anthony Falls Lock and Dam (1963)
o I-35W Saint Anthony Falls Bridge (2008)
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