For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Twin Cities Area
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...

