A burial place the nineteenth century turned into a limestone quarry
Four hundred feet of bluff standing over the Mississippi at Red Wing, and the name to know it by is the Dakota one: Ȟemníčhaŋ, often written He Mni Can. It is a sacred place, and the reason is in the ground rather than the view: the bluff holds many burial mounds. In the nineteenth century travellers and explorers used it as a landmark to steer by, and later it was quarried for limestone, which tells you how quickly a place can go from marker to material. Treat the top as what it is.
Other places on the map within a couple of hours of here.
