They arrived on July 13. “Schoolcraft did officially discover it,” said Sandra Lichter, an Itasca State Park naturalist who is well versed in the headwaters' history.

Schoolcraft renamed the lake Itasca by combining the Latin words veritas (truth) and caput (head). [cms_ad] Questions about the Mississippi’s source, however, lingered for fifty years.

Schoolcraft renamed the lake Itasca by combining the Latin words veritas (truth) and caput (head). Questions about the Mississippi’s source, however, lingered for fifty years.

Explorers Willard Glazier, Giacomo Beltrami and Henry Schoolcraft all believed they had correctly discovered the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Minnesota. Giacomo Beltrami claimed to have ...

Why is part of Highway 65 also called Schoolcraft Freeway? Who or what is ... was the first white man to “discover” the headwaters of the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota at Lake Itasca.

Itasca State Park in Northern Minnesota is one of those destinations that every Minnesota ... Henry Schoolcraft first visited the upper river in 1820 as a member of an exploring party headed by ...

It took another 26 years until Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, an Indian agent who had the foresight to sign on an Ojibwa guide by the name of Ozawindib, identified Lake Itasca as the true headwaters of ...

The true beginnings of the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota -- a spot that was a source of much debate in the 19th century -- mark the first stop in a 2,500-mile odyssey along the length of ...

According to a release from the Cass County Sheriff's Office, a man was reported missing at 11:36 p.m. Wednesday at the Schoolcraft State Park on the Mississippi River in the unorganized township ...