The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

