At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

