Old photo shows a much different river ~ July 20, 2005
David Heiller Mom and I were looking through some old photos a couple of month ago. They were from the Schnick farm in about 1920. Most showed scenes and people. There were several pictures of women in white on a picnic on one of the bluffs. Unfortunately, I only have a photocopied version of this photo.I would love to have an "actual" image, if any one from the area has one that they would be willing to share. Then the photographer, probably Ben Schnick, did a very good thing and turned h is camera toward the Mississippi River and took the picture shown here. It is taken from the bluff just to the north of Shellhorn Road. You can see the railroad track parallel to it. What’s amazing to me is how different the river looks. For one thing the main channel, known as Raft Channel, hugs the Minnesota shore then jogs to the east around a big spit of land in front of where Valeree Green now lives. That whole stretch of river with all its timber and ...