27 Oct 2015

St. Paul District Engineers

The district is turning 150 years old in 2016. I have to admit I have never thought much about what

27 Oct 2015

The Old Post Office Building and the Digitization of the St. Paul District

I started working for the St Paul District in March of 1980. At that time the district office was in the main Post Office on Kellogg Boulevard between Sibley and Jackson streets. The building was built in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration.

25 Sep 2012

Bosse navigation charts in the new century

As commercial navigation becomes more dependent upon electronic technology, the use of paper navigation charts like the hand written ones completed by Henry Bosse in the early 1900s and used on the Dredge Thomson until 2005 are becoming a thing of the past.