The researchers who raised two ancient dugout canoes submerged in Madison’s Lake Mendota announced Thursday they had discovered fragments or chunks of at least eight more canoes in the lake, an astonishing finding that promised to shed light on millennia of Native history in Wisconsin. The oldest is from approximately 4,500 years ago, the oldest […]
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Two missing after canoes went over Boundary Waters waterfall
Two paddlers are missing after two canoes went over a waterfall in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) Saturday, according to the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office. Around 7:20 p.m. Saturday, a caller reported the canoes went over Curtain Falls, a waterfall between Crooked Lake and Iron Lake on the Minnesota-Ontario border. The caller […]