Indian Mounds Park overlook
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A couple looking towards downtown Saint Paul from Indian Mounds Park. Airway Beacon in the background.
Photographer: August E. Hansen
Date: Approximately 1935
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…