The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

