Daily Archives: 9/17/2006

A cemetary or two

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Today on my drive to figure out where work is located I passed by Trinity Lone Oak Lutheran Church and School, which had a small cemetery behind it, so on my way back to the hotel I decided to stop and take a look. This church and cemetery is located in Eagan Minnesota at Dodd Road and Highway 55. The cemetery was established in 1880 and while some of the headstones and markers certainly show this age, many of them are fairly newer. Considering the age I was happy to see that the plots were all kept in very good condition, I think this has a lot to do with the adjoining church.

The second cemetery I cam across today is actually located basically across the highway from my hotel, and I first noticed it yesterday while looking out my window. This cemetery was the Fort Snelling National Cemetery located at 7601 34th Avenue, South in Minneapolis. This is by far the largest cemetery I have ever seen, let alone been in. I picked up a pamphlet at the visitor center to learn more, here is some of the information that was in it:

  • established July 14, 1939
  • situated on 436 acres
  • over 4,280 burials each year
  • one of the largest and most active national cemeteries in the system
  • seven Medal of Honor recipients are interred here

I took a number of pictures here as well, even though the headstones all look the same I went to the very back and up on a hill and took some pictures over looking it all. I also took a number of pictures of some monuments that I found that were dedicated to different battalions and regiments and such. I also took some pictures from out my hotel window on the seventh floor so you can see what my original view of it was.

All of the pictures of the above two places will eventually be added to the gallery under the cemeteries section, once they are up I will post a note and a link.

Learning my way

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Today I decided that it would be a good idea to make sure that I can find my way from the hotel to work, and it’s a good thing that I did. As it turns out there is a major detour in my driving route as 494 is closed. Even with that though the drive should only take about 15 minutes, of course that might change with traffic conditions in the morning, I will have to see. I know work at the Thomson West building, which is the main location for what we refer to as TLR. I took some pictures of the outside of the building from the parking lot (they will be up later) to show how large this place is, and it should be considering we employ 7000 people.

I also finally got around to taking some pictures of my truck in the parking lot, seeing as there was basically no one else around, I thought it would be a good time to do it. I will have all of those pictures up later as well.