Visit Graeser Park
A virtual visit, June 2024 Please stop and see this one-of-a-kind destination soon! Get to Graeser Park by… …foot (the park borders Crystal and Brooklyn Center on the west and Camden on the east) …bike … Read more
Odds and Ends
A Trip Back in Time Along the Jefferson Highway
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
A Trailblazing Highway and Its Roadside Parks
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
About Graeser Park
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
It’s a small park with a big history! The original Robbinsdale Rock Garden Roadside Parking Area was the crowning achievement of the Highway 100 construction project, built during the Great Depression. Of the seven original … Read more
Doctor Colp’s Home
Dr. Donald G. Colp was one of Robbinsdale’s prominent citizens. He vas born in Nova Scotia. He graduated from then Fargo, North Dakota College and Yale Divinity School in 1897. He served churches in New … Read more
The Schuller Hardware Store
Charles Schuller, started in the Farm Machinery business with Mr. Garrett in Swift’s Old building on April 30, 1897. He was born and raised on a farm in Crystal. After 1iving elsewhere for a while … Read more
One of the Big Three
ALFRED PARKER- One of the “BIG THREE” of Robbinsdale’s early history, Mr. Parker was the son of a Methodist minister. He was born in Scarborough, Maine in 1824. Went to sea at an early age … Read more
Observance Will Save Trouble
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