Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Twin Cities Area
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

