Milestones of Robbinsdale
This post is the ninth in a series featuring a history paper that Roberta Lee Scoville’s wrote while attending Minneapolis Business College back in 1976. The image at the top of the post shows the … Read more
Odds and Ends
According to the Shumway Sisters
Haakon Christiansen This post is the eighth in a series featuring a history paper that Roberta Lee Scoville’s wrote while attending Minneapolis Business College back in 1976. The photos at the top of the … Read more
Hang in there Robbinsdale!
This post is the seventh in a series featuring the history paper Roberta Lee Scoville wrote while attending Minneapolis Business College in 1976.
Bill Ewald is our Guest at the next Membership Meeting!
Chris Ewald emigrated from Denmark in the early 1900’s. Ewald got his start on rented land near Lake Hiawatha in South Minneapolis. After the Minneapolis Park Board acquired the land he was renting, Ewald purchased … Read more
Looking Back from the Turn of the Century
Minnesota became the 32nd state in the Union in the spring of 1858. The community we know as Robbinsdale was not as yet organized as were others in the state. This was a farming community. … Read more
Welcome to Our Robbinsdale
WELCOME TO ROBBINSDALE By DeWitt EImo Come, ye jaded urban mortals, Out along the thoroughfare, To the country’s open portals, Where there’s sunshine and fresh air. For that is the tonic legal, And of favored, … Read more
Looking North Then and Now
Looking north along West Broadway from 41st & 1/2 in 1925 Just 93 short years ago, the east side of West Broadway had to 2 auto shops, 4 gas pumps, a bank, a black smith … Read more
September Membership Meeting Minutes
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 President Diane Jacobson McGee opened the meeting and led with the Pledge of Allegiance. MINUTES of the last Membership meeting and Board meeting were accepted as printed. NEW BOARD MEMBERS were introduced: … Read more
Progress is an American Tradition!
Mrs. Henry E. (Dorothy) Hartig prepared her history of Robbinsdale in 1948 for the Robbinsdale Library Club. Dorothy was active in many civic organizations and in 1978 she helped organize the Robbinsdale Historical Society. In … Read more