Crystal Village Hall
This building stood a little north of the Little White Church, on the other side of the street. In March of 1860, a group of 55 pioneers met to organize Crystal Lake Township. The area … Read more
Crystal Lake Township
Roberta’s History of Robbinsdale
The Shumway Farm and Hennepin County in 1874 This is the first in a series of posts we’re creating to share Roberta Lee Scoville’s Robbinsdale History paper from 1976. The picture at the top of … 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
Crystal Lake Township and the Village
This is the third in a series of posts featuring Dorthy Hartig’s History of Robbinsdale. This informal account was written for the Robbinsdale Library Club in 1948. A copy was placed Lee’s School’s cornerstone time … Read more
Uneventful and Prosaic
1853 In January, 1853, the county Commissioners created the School Districts in Hennepin County. District # 1 was located in the village of Minneapolis, District #2 included nearly the whole northern section of the county. … Read more
The Shumways
John P. Shumway purchased 45 acres of the Crystal Lake Township for $25 dollars a piece in 1856. He built a modest home near Twin Lake and managed to get most of the land … Read more
File#CF002 Crystal Lake
** %0 167 BA Robbinsdale Historical Society CB City douments, nineteenth century DE 1888 DF Recollection DS 1885 I2 IN CF002 OB Crystal Lake OC City Files PB This file contains two photocopies of important … Read more