… and outside Wichita, Kansas, showing the direction from Amarillo. The other closest surviving arrows are in Milroy, Indiana (pointing the way to Cincinnati) … The arrows are part of a network of about 1,500 arrows, of slightly different sizes and shapes, that were created in the mid-1920s to help Air Mail pilots navigate. KSTP says the Cottage Grove Historic Preservation Commission will consider landmark status for the arrow at its next meeting. Most of the farms left in that area of Washington County are marking time until they become housing developments. You'll find one of these old air route beacons along with an original generator, other support equipment and other aviation memorabilia of that time restored and converted into a museum at the Grants-Milan airport in New Mexico. It’s on his farm and nearly impossible to see from the air now, but perhaps without roads and a lot buildings, it would have been more obvious back when flyboys needed luck even more than concrete arrows to get the mail to its intended destination. “I think it should be roped off for a historic site.” “Now that everybody thinks it’s a piece of history, I think they should keep it there even if this farm develops,” Jim Jansen says. They’re all gone now, except for this one, and KSTP reports that history fans would like to see it stick around in the development-happy suburb. It’s hard to say where the airmail would’ve been coming from but the orientation seems to suggest Chicago, or perhaps wherever the previous arrow was located (La Crosse was a stop on the St. Paul’s Fleming Field, as near as we can tell, about 6 miles away. This one, just off 90th Street in Cottage Grove, points the way to St. This 218-mile route was designed by Augustus Post, the Secretary of the Aero Club of America, who had served as an assistant to Alexander Graham Bell's Aerial Experiment Association in 1908 and was newly returned from special military service training aviators in Britain and France. It’s the last remaining concrete arrow in Minnesota, where the landscape was once dotted by them, to help steer air mail pilots to their destination. The first scheduled US airmail service connected Washington, D.C., and New York. This little concrete arrow, which I first wrote about in 2013, could soon be protected from development.
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