Air Beacon
This file appears in: Beacon on the Bluff
Indian Mounds Park
Photographer: St. Paul Daily News
Date: Approximately 1930
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
This file appears in: Beacon on the Bluff
Beacon on the Bluff
Air travel was changing from a novelty to a serious form of transportation by the 1920’s. The federal government supported this new industry by paying to have planes deliver mail. Over 600 airway beacons were constructed by the post Office and the…