Upper Mississippi River Headwaters Project

Historical marker location:

Deer River, Minnesota

( Marker is on County Highway 9, on the right when traveling west.)

Lake Winnibigoshish Dam and Reservoir. Constructed and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District.

The first Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, which would later become the Big Ten Conference, was held in Minneapolis in 1895.