The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

