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Entrance Area of Dayton Port Wayside Rest Portion of Oxcart Trail Interpretive Signage at the Wayside Rest Area TA I LADE TQW N SITE Itasca grey up .ar an indlan tredinq post which was estahl4stapet 00' feet -east of he n 1849 by 1"homas :i Hulmes and 'James Beatty. t the suggeitlon of rirorial Governor Alexander Ramsey, the settle - 'Mein +vas named in !, cnor of Lake Itasca. the source of the Mississippi River- In 1837 a IYi•.lnntial hotel was hnitt. the vill,.ge was platted. and Itasca boasted the first post office In present f.nrdta (ountythere was even lift uniaC cessfnl attempt to locate the territorial capital Isere. Itasca was ■ stopping place on The heavily traveled Red River Oxcart Trail between Pembina M1 ±I, ',,Anna, and the steamboat landing Fa St. Paul. "in 1857 cargoes :urbuffalo robes. and meat Yanked et 3120.000 arrived at Si- Paul. and In 1858 more than 600 carts OW the "t trade. Traces of the old trail can be seen a few feet west al int! starter.. The village's prosperity began to wane in 1856, when the removal of the roving Winnebago Indians from the Long Prairie Reservation took away the mainstay of local trade. By the early 1660s the town was virtually deserted. host• remained • post office until 1879. and It +vas the first mailing address of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry. better known as the NationalGrange, This farm organisation was founded by Oliver H. Kelley who opened a Grange office in his home near her: in 1868. For rwo years he mailed tIta 'through the sca past oeflee vast amounts of literature encouragtnq•, farmers to join the Grange S.` One of the interpretative signs next to the Dayton Port Wayside Rest This trail project will also bring the Mississippi River Trail within one mile of the Historic Oiver Kelley Farm, a designated historic landmark on the National Register of Historic Places. The Oliver Kelley Farm is the residence of the founder of the National Grange, a fraternal organization for farmers that led the national agrarian reform movement. Future extension of the Mississippi River Regional Trail into the City of Elk River and Sherburne County will provide a direct bicycle and pedestrian connection to this historic landmark. 4. Relationship to Intermodal/Multimodal Transportation System (100 points). Discuss how the project will function as a component and/or enhancement of the transportation system: ■ How will the bicycle or pedestrian facility benefit the experience of users of the transportation system? 22