Digital Time Travelers 2002

Virtual Trip Along 6 Pause Portage

1. Creek and Mercer Lake

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Virtual Trip along the portage

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Quotes from 19th century travelers

Research questions

Pictures

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1847 Map illustrating the Turtle Portage Band of Ojibwe, the creek to Mercer Lake and the start of 6-Pause Portage.
Creek between Grand Portage Lake and Mercer Lake that was taken by all fur traders, Ojibwe, missionaries and government agents.
Looking across Mercer Lake to where the creek enters from Grand Portage Lake.
Lower part of the creek to Mercer Lake. No journal ever mentions a portage along the creek, logically this shallow creek has been modified by modern development.

 

1.Creek and Mercer Lake 2. Start Portage Mercer Lake to Cemetery 3.Cemetery to Flerick Road 4. Flerick Rd. to Snowmobile Trail 5. Snowmobile to Old Pioneer Rd 6. Old Pioneer Rd to Gene Talyor's residence 7.Gene Taylor's residence to Midwest timber and slashings
8. Slashings to dense swamp 9. Open swamp to pine high ground 10. Pine high ground to willows 11. Willows to Murray Landing Road 12. Murray Landing Road to terrace on River 13. Looking from the Manitowish River to the terrace