Robbinsdale Historical Society
Sharing Your Past To Build Our Future
Before Robbinsdale had bustling brewpubs, food trucks, busy avenues, or that big old hospital, it was rolling prairie, farms, oak savanna, and swamps. In 1886, Andrew B. Robbins—inventor, entrepreneur, state legislator—looked across the shore of … Read more
1905 Robbinsdale pioneer, Alfred Parker passed away on April 7th. Compass Lodge 265 A. F. & A. M. was organized September 6. George Swift, Sr. as first master. The charter was granted in January, 1906. … Read more
Beginning in 1942 a Twin City Rapid Transit feeder bus met the Penn Avenue streetcar in Minneapolis at a terminal near 42nd and Thomas and went to Robbinsdale along 42nd, Abbott, Noble and Vera Cruz … Read more