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Posted on May 28, 2024

Dakhóta Language Scholars Win Ramsey County Historical Society’s 2024 Virginia B. Kunz Award

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…
Posted on May 15, 2024

Ramsey County History Authors Receive MALHM and MNSAH Awards

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…
Posted on February 27, 2024

Ramsey County History Magazine Winter 2024

Welcome to 2024! A new year presents opportunities to share new and corrective histories in our Winter issue of Ramsey County History magazine, which you should receiving soon. We’ve attached a link to this most recent issue here, where you will find bonus supplements that are…
Posted on February 1, 2023

Winter Carnival Ice Palaces 1887 & 1888

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…
Posted on February 1, 2023

Winter Carnival Ice Palaces

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…