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Posted on March 14, 2025

Rich Arpi Retires After Ten Years at RCHS

On March 13, 2025, RCHS celebrated over a decade of service and work from Research Assistant, Rich Arpi. Rich Arpi’s career has included twenty years at the Minnesota Historical Society, twelve years as a corporate archivist at St. Paul Companies, six years as an archivist at the Ohio Historical Society,…

2025 Gibbs Farm Camp Registrations – Now Open!

Ready for a Summertime Adventure? Registration is now open! Gibbs Farm has camps for kids aged 4 to 14. Whatever piques your interest – 19th century farm or Dakota seasonal life, nature, games, farm animals, gardening, tea parties – we have a camp for you! Gibbs Farm is an…

RCHS Welcomes Andrea Swensson, Editor

RCHS Welcomes Andrea Swensson, Editor Please join us in welcoming Andrea Swensson as Ramsey County Historical Society’s new editor. Andrea will be the fourth editor in this role of the entire history of publications for RCHS. She has a very tenured background in journalism – serving as music editor…

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RCHS Members

April 2, 2025 | 6:00 PM–8:00 PM

RCHS Members Event – Genealogy Tracing

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO APRIL 2, 2025, 6:00 PM-8:00 PM. RCHS Members Event – Genealogy Tracing Presented by Ramsey County Historical Society 6:00 PM -8:00 PM Cost: $50 Register Here Are you stuck on a family history research challenge? Join professional genealogist Mica L.

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April 4, 2025 | 10:00 AM–12:00 PM

Friday Morning Farm Chore Volunteer 2025

Register Here Help us tackle our to-do list! Volunteer at Gibbs Farm on select Friday Mornings and Tuesday Evenings during the 2025 season. The outdoor projects change weekly usually planting, watering, weeding, harvesting, light landscape and orchard projects. Projects best for ages 6+ and are…

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Exhibition

March of the Governors

March 2023-Mid-June 2024
RCHS Gallery, Landmark Center First Floor
75 Fifth Street West, Saint Paul MN 55102

In conjunction with the monthly “March of the Governors” podcast series, an exhibition in the RCHS Gallery at Landmark Center provides brief snapshots of Minnesota’s forty-one governors during their terms in office. Eight to ten panels at a time will be installed that will tell a brief snapshot of each governor’s life. The panels will rotate every 3 months. There’s far more to each of their stories, both positive and negative, we hope you will be inspired to learn more.

The third installation which is currently on view, includes:

Special thanks to each of the podcast presenters, host Paul Nelson and podcast producers Don Lee and Bob Ernt.

March of the Governors Podcasts

Donate Artifacts

Virtually all of the 4.5 million documents, photographs, artifacts, and other items that make up our collections have been donated to RCHS. If you have pieces of Ramsey County history gathering dust in your basement, consider donating them to RCHS. Please contact Curator Mollie Spillman to donate artifacts, photographs or documents. RCHS Curator Mollie Spillman (L) donating an oral history collection to the University of Minnesota's Tretter Collection through Tretter Curator Lisa Vecoli (R).