• Artist George Catlin recorded the quarrying activity at the pipestone quarries in 1836

    Pipestone

    National Monument Minnesota

For Teachers

Plan a Field Trip to Pipestone National Monument and help your students connect with a significant natural, cultural, and historic heritage.
 

Other Teaching Tools:

NPS Teaching with Historic Places

NPS Nature and Science

The History of the National Park Service

Did You Know?

A quarry site with quartzite rubble pile

Archeological evidence indicates that the quarrying of pipestone has occurred for 3,000 years at Pipestone National Monument.  The important traditions of pipestone quarrying and pipemaking continue today. More...