Robbinsdale Historical Society provides members and visitors with a wide variety of local history resources. Find out more about your neighborhood, school, or family history. Whether you are just browsing or you are interested in doing more intensive research, the materials in the museum and on our website are available for free!
The Robbinsdale Historical Society’s archives include:
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- Extensive correspondence and papers from the Robbins family
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- 19th century meeting notes and records of Crystal Lake Township, The Village of Crystal and the Village of Robbinsdale
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- A complete collection of Robbinsdale High School Annuals and The Robin’s Tale newspaper
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- Hundreds of artifacts thousands of photographs, civic publications, scrapbooks, local directories, municipal documents and school records
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- A variety of items and people that the citizens of Robbinsdale wanted to get out of their house, but couldn’t bring themselves to throw away
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In addition to hundreds of image rich Robbinsdale-related posts and articles, this website contains a digital index describing the contents of many of our files. Use the search fields at the top or bottom of the site to find materials by name or keyword. You can also search this site using the drop down archive and categories buttons located in the lower portion of every page.
LATEST NEWS: Thanks to funding from the Minnesota Legislature’s Legacy Grant Program, we are working to inventory, organize, and catalog our collections. Learn more about it here.
MNCollections is a website provided by the Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums to display documentary evidence of our past through the collections of historical and cultural organizations across the state. Many of these institutions serve multiple functions, whether operating as local history museums and/or archives, art galleries, cultural organizations, and interpretive centers. You can explore items from the Robbinsdale Historical Society’s collection by clicking here.
This project has been financed in part with funds provided by the State of Minnesota from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the Minnesota Historical Society.
Discover the story of Lilac Way. Lined with 7,000 lilac bushes, it was a 12.5 mile ‘Showcase Section’ of Highway 100. Restore Lilac Way is a civic project conceived, written, designed, and maintained by Karen Laukkonen
The Robbinsdale Historical Society has been working with the Terrace Legacy Project to preserve memories and artifacts from the Historic Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale (1951-2016). You can learn more and contribute to these efforts by visiting the Terrace Legacy Project page at the America’s Classic Cinemas website. Maintained by David Leonhardt, the mission of America’s Classic Cinemas is to locate, explore, and photograph historic theaters and movie palaces across the US.
High resolution photos from our collection are available at the Minnesota Digital Library’s Minnesota Reflections website. Click here to explore these historic images.
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