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Grand Portage National MonumentAn interpreter in voyageur dress prepares to fire a black powder musket as visitors listen.
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Grand Portage National Monument
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The Historic Gardener weeds

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The Historic Gardener weeds the kitchen gardens

In the Historic Gardens varieties are grown which may have been grown at Grand Portage,  posts westward into Canada and east to Fort Michilimackinac and Montreal.  Read more about The Historic Gardens at Grand Portage National Monument in the link above.
The Gap - along the Grand Portage.  

Did You Know?
The Grand Portage goes through a gap in the hills formed by more rapid weathering along bed-rock shattered through movement along a crack named the Grand Portage-Poplar Creek fault by geologists.

Last Updated: July 25, 2006 at 00:22 EST