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Ramsey County History – Spring 1969: Trail Map

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Trail Map PDF of Trail Map…

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Ramsey County History – Spring 1969: Board of Directors

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Board of Directors PDF of Board of Directors…

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Ramsey County History – Fall 1968: “Theater in Old St. Paul—Extravaganzas, Melodramas”

Frank M. Whiting

Theater in Old St. Paul—Extravaganzas, Melodramas Author: Frank M. Whiting Vignettes from early theater in St. Paul, beginning with an amateur production at Fort Snelling in the winter of 1821–22, through an “Around The World In 80 Days” extravaganza in 1890. Professional theater began in 1851, and…

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Ramsey County History – Fall 1968: “The Wandering Skeleton of Charley Pitts”

Carl A. Eide

The Wandering Skeleton of Charley Pitts Author: Carl A. Eide More information on what happened to the skeleton of Charley Pitts, one of the members of the James-Younger gang that tried to rob the bank in Northfield in 1876. Pitts was killed, and his body was turned…

Ramsey County History – Fall 1968: “Bernheimer Block Is Gone But Memories Linger On”

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Bernheimer Block Is Gone But Memories Linger On The Bernheimer Block, on East Third Street (now Kellogg Boulevard) at the corner with Minnesota, was built in 1859. It was the site of many noteworthy events: the first Civil War enlistments; the first velocipede demonstrations; one of the first…

Ramsey County History – Fall 1968: “‘Salubrious Minnesota’—Kohlman’s Hotel and the Resort Era”

Jerome O. Schueler

 ‘Salubrious Minnesota’—Kohlman’s Hotel and the Resort Era Author: Jerome O. Schueler “People came out in these tally-hos (double-decked, horse-drawn carriages), on horseback, and in surreys with the fringe on top” to Kohlman’s Hotel on Lake Gervais in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kohlman’s had a…

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Ramsey County History – Fall 1968: “Forgotten Pioneers: Stephen Desnoyer”

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Forgotten Pioneers: Stephen Desnoyer Stephen Desnoyer (1805–1877) operated a saloon and hotel on the old ox cart trail from Pembina to St. Paul. The site was later occupied by the Shriners Children’s Hospital. He came to St. Paul in 1845 and died there in 1877. The Desnoyer Park neighborhood…

Ramsey County History – Fall 1968: “Silver Lake Childhood – Revisited”

William F. Morgan

Silver Lake Childhood – Revisited Author: William F. Morgan A very brief memoir of the author’s childhood spent at Silver Lake in North St. Paul. PDF of Morgan article…

Ramsey County History – Fall 1968: “Spring Wagons and No Roads: A Pioneer Family’s Sunday”

Lillie Gibbs LeVesconte

Spring Wagons and No Roads: A Pioneer Family’s Sunday Author: Lillie Gibbs LeVesconte A short reminiscence left by the youngest child (born 1865) of Jane and Heman Gibbs about Sundays in the 1870s in St. Anthony Park and the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota.