The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

