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Saint Cloud and Red River Valley <br />Stage Road — Kandota Section, Todd <br />County, Minnesota, is the best pre- <br />served section of the road built by the <br />Minnesota Stage Company in 1859. <br />The property is significant for its <br />association with the transportation <br />history of Minnesota, as defined in the <br />Overland Staging Industry in Minne - <br />sota,1849 -1880, Multiple Property <br />Submission. The property meets the <br />following registration requirements: <br />conforming. to the original route; <br />being unimproved, passable, and <br />distinct from the surrounding land; <br />being long enough to evoke a sense of <br />destination or direction; and retaining <br />the wooded setting of the area's <br />condition during the period of signifi- <br />cance. The land beyond the north- <br />west end of the nominated property, <br />which has been plowed, bears no <br />signs of the road and is therefore <br />excluded from the nomination. <br />Reasonable limits were used to define <br />the National Register boundaries. <br />Verbal boundary description: The <br />property consists of a six - foot -wide <br />strip of land centering on the line <br />delineated on the accompanying map <br />(USGS 7,5 minute series, West Union, <br />Minnesota, Quadrangle). The line <br />connects the following UTM reference <br />points: A 15 344350 5070710, B 15 <br />344120 5070890. Boundary justifica- <br />tion: The property boundaries <br />encompass the visible roadway as <br />determined through field survey by <br />Robert Hybben, 22 May 1990. <br />44 <br />Saint Cloud and Red River Valley Stage Road— Kandota Section, Todd County, <br />Minnesota. Detail of USGS quadrangle map showing location of the National Register <br />property. <br />Saint Cloud and Red River Valley Stage Road — Kandota Section, Todd County, <br />Minnesota, The.stage road trace, facing northwest. (Robert Hybben) <br />�, <br />ST�CLOVU .4ND 2GD_�?�6,e <br />rro <br />ulri Ref«we Pont, <br />"ro 06 ?co <br />N /E� U/✓!DN Qvi� <br />Saint Cloud and Red River Valley Stage Road— Kandota Section, Todd County, <br />Minnesota. Detail of USGS quadrangle map showing location of the National Register <br />property. <br />Saint Cloud and Red River Valley Stage Road — Kandota Section, Todd County, <br />Minnesota, The.stage road trace, facing northwest. (Robert Hybben) <br />