Dayton's Bluff

Dayton’s Bluff

Main article: Dayton’s Bluff

Dayton’s Bluff [3]is a neighborhood on the east side of the Mississippi in the southeast part of Saint Paul. It has a residential district on an elevated plateau bounded by the ridges of the Mississippi River Valley. The name of Dayton’s Bluff commemorates Lyman Dayton (1810–1865),[6] for whom a village and a township in Hennepin County also were named. The area of the neighborhood that had views of the river valley and Downtown Saint Paul was purchased as early as the 1850s, with most of the houses being built in the 1880s.[7] On the edge of the southern and highest part of Dayton’s Bluff along the Mississippi River is the Indian Mounds Park. Within the park are six remaining burial mounds from the prehistoric era of the Hopewell moundbuilders.[8] Dayton’s Bluff has undergone much renovation and restoration in recent years.