Demand for wood products throughout the country powered a tremendous building boom. Meanwhile, economic opportunities attracted others to the forest. A year later, when Society members reviewed his report, its content reaffirmed Lake Itasca as the Mississippi’s source.
Brower’s background as a lawyer, historian, and archeologist aided his task. The Minnesota Historical Society commissioned Jacob Brower to survey the region in 1889 and end the confusion. Skeptics believed the dense, swampy marshes around Itasca concealed the true headwaters. 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). In 1832 the Ojibwe leader Ozaawindib brought Henry Schoolcraft to Omushkos Lake and the Mississippi headwaters. government slowly began turning their attention to the region after buying Louisiana Territory from France in 1803.
Ojibwe groups have lived in the lake’s vicinity since the 1700s. Around 1200 CE the Blackduck people created a village there, eventually leaving remnants of their unique pottery behind. Some eight thousand years ago Indigenous hunters left spears at a bison kill site in the area.
People have long appreciated Lake Itasca’s beauty and resources.
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