A Quasquicentennial Arbor Day tree planting will take place at city hall on Saturday April 28th at 10:00 a.m. The event is sponsored by the Robbinsdale Recreation Department. A new tree will be planted near the tree that was planted for our 100th birthday. Please join us for this historic occasion!
Our city’s founder, Andrew B. Robbins, landscaped his Twin Lake estate with 8 acres of lawn, walks, fountains, shrubs and two tree-lined entrance roads. Inspired by Richard Chute, who purchased 2000 trees for the Village of St. Anthony in 1858. Robbins lined the streets of his Robbinsdale Park subdivision with willows, white curl leaf birch, oaks and elms. He worked tirelessly to grow the village into the sort of suburb he imagined lay outside the great cities of the east.
“I have my own ground,” Andrew B. Robbins wrote in 1903, “22 apple trees which are now bearing fruit”. Robbins landscaped his tract with an eclectic collection of trees and shrubs. When some of the land was being cleared for Highway 100 in the 1930’s, workers for the highway department said they had never seen such a wide variety of trees in one place.