Robbinsdale Historical Society
Sharing Your Past To Build Our Future
If you grew up around these parts, you may have heard of the Jefferson Highway, an early north-south auto trail that extended all the way from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. A portion of … Read more
Minnesota’s Highway 100, built during the Great Depression, was a stunning achievement in early highway design and construction. The new highway, a mile west of the Minneapolis city limits, extended from Edina on the south … Read more
Robbinsdale’s Graeser Park was built in 1940-41 along the new Highway 100 where it crossed the Jefferson Highway (a popular tourist route established in the 1920s that ran right through Robbinsdale on its way from … Read more
Graeser Park History: 1940-2021 Robbinsdale’s Rock Garden Roadside Parking Area was the last and largest of seven parks built in 1939-1940 along Highway 100. It was renamed Graeser Park in honor of Minnesota highway engineer … Read more
This post is the sixth in a series based on a history paper Roberta Lee Scoville’s wrote while attending Minneapolis Business College in 1976. The picture up top of features the east side of … Read more
This post is the fifth in a series based on the A+ history paper Roberta Lee Scoville’s wrote while attending Minneapolis Business College in 1976. The picture up top of features Robbinsdale in the … Read more
The first Library and a 1912 map illustrating Robbinsdale’s proxinity to the biggest city in the state. The image at the top of the post John Bloberger and A group of Parker School kids in … Read more
The image at the top of the page features a Parker’s School postcard from Jeff Vick’s collection. This post is the third part of a series based on an A+ history paper Roberta Lee … Read more
