Grazing land, which doesn’t require that the stones be removed, gives an idea of how cleared land looked before intensive agriculture began.

These fine specimens were unearthed during the demolition of the old Bemidji High School.  Looks like the city is going to sell them off for some spare change.

Winter’s ice pushes up boulders onto the shore of Lake Bemidji.  These are likely remains of the foundation of a large pier that used to run down third street into the lake

This church in Iron River, Michigan, supposedly includes pieces of petrified wood

Four-story chimney at Buena Vista. 

This is the office of Greenwood Cemetery in Bemidji, modified to enhance the texture of the individual stacked stones.

Cloquet, Minnesota lies on a geological frontier between the fieldstone and glacial moraine of the northwest and central regions of the state, and the volcanic Gabbro and Greenstone of the “Duluth Complex”  Stone buildings in Duluth are very distinct from those in other northern counties for their use of these stones, which had to be blasted and quarried from the shore of Lake Superior to make room for the growing town.

Enger Tower in Duluth

This is the grave stone of a Finnish immigrant who died at the turn of the 20th century.  The stone was unearthed in the yard of a Taxidermist in Walker Minnesota. The field stone at the grave below was the original grave mark for Ludjer Belleveau, chosen by his father, Martin from the stones he pulled from his field.