The Buried Cradle of St. Paul: Our Story of Fountain Cave
On July 16, 1817, Major Stephen H. Long stepped out of a six-oared skiff and walked into a hidden white sandstone cavern, an exploration that would trigger a multi-generational chain reaction of erasure, military expansion, and the ultimate birth of the capital city.
We peel back the modern asphalt of St. Paul's Shepard Road to uncover our history of Fountain Cave. Long before it was weaponized as a Fort Snelling military reservation boundary line in 1820 or turned into a bootleg outpost by Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant in 1838, these St. Peter Sandstone bluffs were an ancestral, sacred homeland…
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