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Are you ready for an adventure? In 2024, Gibbs Farm has camps for kids aged 4 to 13.  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 eight-acre site…

St. Paul’s Rondo Center of Diverse Expression has hosted a Juneteenth observance at Rondo Plaza for the last four years. Ramsey County Historical Society is always honored to be invited to this event that marks the day in 1865 when African Americans in Galveston, Texas, first learned of their…

Ramsey County Historical Society (RCHS) recently presented seven Dakhóta-language scholars with the Virginia B. Kunz Award for their article, “Dakhóta Iápi: A Brief History in Three Parts .” It ran in the society’s Fall 2023 issue of Ramsey County History magazine. RCHS President Chad Roberts made the presentation to a…

Greetings! Our spring issue of Ramsey County History magazine has published. Our first two articles—Paul Nelson’s “The Fraud of the Century” and Drew M. Ross’s “Decisions, Destiny, and Dreams: Plympton’s Reserve, St. Paul’s Founding, and Desnoyer’s New Bridge Square”—cover the seedier side of St. Paul’s history with tales of fraud,…

Ramsey County Historical Society and several of its authors have won accolades for their articles that have published in Ramsey County History, the society’s quarterly history publication. Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums Announces 2024 History Award Winners The Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums honored ten local…

Online RCHS article with supplements  – Search “Native American” in Publications for more articles Local Theater New Native Theater Local Restaurants/Coffee Shops Gatherings Café (Reopening Spring 2024) Indigenous Food Lab – Midtown Global Market Owamni Pow Wow Grounds Coffee Shop Local Stores…