College of St Scholastica - Towers Yearbook (Duluth, MN)

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HORSE SHOE BEND..BouIevord Drive Where the sun-fouched path goes winding where the little shadows fall have you ever thought of finding the still secret of if all: . . . how the blue of the lake and Heaven to the summer day was given.

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iHiHE-R BHRHEH ERUSS 'ON-Oiw Father Baraga arrived in the United States in 1831. He spread Christianity among the Indians in Ohio and Michigan and gradually worked west into Wisconsin and Minnesota. In the fall of 1846 he set out from La Pointe, Wisconsin for Grand Portage, Minnesota, accompanied by Louis Guadin. They had only a small fishing boat with a mast and sail but without keel or center board. Lake Superior became very rough. Their lives were in imminent danger. They managed, however, to veer their light boat into the mouth of a small river, hitherto unnamed. In gratitude for their safety, they proceeded to erect a Christian symbol, a plain wooden cross. This cross later gave the river its name, Cross River. Its location is at Schroeder, on the North Shore drive. The old cross was propped up and strength- ened every time a member of the Burden family passed by and it weathered the storm for more than a century. Then in 1934, Bishop Welch requested the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women to procure funds and have a new cross erected. It was a loving task and soon was ready for dedication. This monument, the Father Baraga Cross, made of St. Cloud granite, stands at the iunction of the Cross River and Lake Superior on the spot where Father Baraga erected his wooden cross. It is one of the points of interest for tourists making the North Shore drive.