Robbinsdale Historical Society
Sharing Your Past To Build Our Future
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
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
“Save the Beehive” has become a rallying cry in Robbinsdale lately. Our town’s Graeser Park (originally called “Robbinsdale Rock Garden Roadside Parking Area”) is home to the only beehive fireplace still standing in its original … Read more