Leif Erikson

Historical marker location:

75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Saint Paul, Minnesota

( Marker is on University Avenue east of Rice Street, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1949

Discoverer of America. 1000 A.D.

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