Robbinsdale Historical Society
Sharing Your Past To Build Our Future
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
Most of us spent a fair amount of time along the railroad tracks when we were kids, but Dave Vos has pictures! Here are a few scenes along the rails through Robbinsdale and Crystal in … Read more
The Minneapolis streetcar went only as far north as the intersection of Penn Avenue North and 32nd Avenue.The only way for people north of there was to get a ride to the stop by horse … Read more
Work was begun on the railroad in the fall of 1880. The first passenger train came through on November 17, 1881. People couldn’t get their work done as they spent so much time watching the … Read more
Traffic Ordinance Regulating riding, driving, travel and traffic in the streets of the village of Robbinsdale and providing a punishment for any violation thereof. The Village Council of the Village of Robbinsdale do ordain as Follows: Sec. 1. … Read more
In the middle of the 1920’s the names of Robbinsdale’s streets were changed to eliminate duplication and create a unified alphabetical system between the villages of Crystal, Golden Valley, and Robbinsdale. Villas Avenue (below) became … Read more
On several occasions during the last few days the attention of the residents of the village has been attracted by some very strange atmospherical disturbances. During a dead calm, the wind (without any previous indications), … Read more
There’s no railroad depot in Robbinsdale these days, but there was a- depot and considerable activity years ago. Mostly freight of course, but there was a time when Great Northern passenger trains stopped in Robbinsdale. … Read more
