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Art in the Hollow Swede Hollow Park, St. PaulSaturday, June 3, 2023 10:00 am-5:00 pm Park at the Saint Paul Brewing lot688 Minnehaha Ave E, Saint Paul MN   Join us at the beautiful Swede Hollow Park for Art in the Hollow–“best hidden art…

We thank all of our volunteers who put in hundreds and hundreds of hours each year to make everything we do at RCHS and Gibbs Farm possible. Volunteers…

Pathways Gala for Gibbs Farm Tuesday, September 12, 2023 5:30-8:00 pm Wabasha Street Caves 215 Wabasha St S, St Paul, MN 55107 Pathways Gala Site: https://gibbs.givesmart.com  go to Browse, Bid and Buy and you can view the items!…

RCHS will be featuring Women’s History Month on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/RamseyCountyHistoricalSociety. Watch for more posts throughout the month! And check out our online exhibition, Persistence: Continuing the Struggle for Suffrage and Equality, 1848-2020 which recognizes the champions who struggled to achieve voting rights for women…

Breaking the Silence: Black History Month Celebration February 26, 2023 2:00 pm-4:00 pm St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 615 Vermillion St. Hastings, MN Keynote Speaker: Sheletta Brundige Music & Performances by: Dale Alexander Wendell Kirk Readers Theatre Black Pioneers in Dakota…

Interior of the 1887 Winter Carnival Ice Palace The 1887 Ice Palace The St. Paul Ice Palace and Winter Carnival Association held a competition for the design of the ice palace that would again stand in the center of Central Park. The grand prize was $200, which was won by…

The 1886 Ice Palace St. Paul was one of the fastest growing cities in North America in 1885. Newspapers and magazines advertised the virtues of agriculture and development to attract new settlement and business. When a New York correspondent wrote that St. Paul was, “another Siberia, unfit for…

Author Spotlights History of St. Paul’s African American Suffragists. Ramsey County Historical Society (RCHS) presented Leetta M. Douglas with the Virginia B. Kunz Award for her article, “Votes for Everywoman: Nellie Griswold Francis, the Women of Rondo, and Their Suffrage Crusade.” It ran as the cover story in the…

Much has been written about the history of the famous but mostly forgotten Red River oxcart trails that once cut through what is today parts of Canada, North Dakota, and Minnesota for fifty years beginning in the 1820s. Métis and Selkirk colonists packed pelts and other products onto two-wheeled…