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Ramsey County History – Spring 2022: “Growing Up in Ramsey County: With a Dash of Foreign Spice”
Kitty GoginsGrowing Up in Ramsey County: With a Dash of Foreign Spice Author: Kitty Gogins 2020 Co-Winner of the Ramsey County Historical Society Virginia B. Kunz Award Kitty Gogins wrote the companion piece to Krista Finstad Hanson’s International Institute of Minnesota history. Gogin’s family, beginning with her refugee parents, Olga and…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2019: “Eliza Edgerton Newport and St. Paul’s Floating Bethel, 1891-1903”
Christine Podas-LarsonEliza Edgerton Newport and St. Paul’s Floating Bethel, 1891-1903 Author: Christine Podas-Larson Eliza Newport knew how to get things done. The well-educated and well-connected St. Paul resident led many charitable organizations and community efforts throughout her lifetime, but one that was especially dear to her was the city’s Floating…
Ramsey County History – Spring 2018: “The St. Paul Camera Club Celebrates Its 125th Anniversary”
Bob MuschewskeThe St. Paul Camera Club Celebrates Its 125th Anniversary Author: Bob Muschewske The growth and popularity of photography in the late nineteenth century led to the founding of the St. Paul Camera Club (SPCC) in 1893. Over the years, the number of members of the SPCC has…
Ramsey County History – Spring 2018: “How St. Paul’s Federal Courts Building and Post Office Became Today’s Landmark Center”
Bob RoscoeHow St. Paul’s Federal Courts Building and Post Office Became Today’s Landmark Center Author: Bob Roscoe In 1969, demolition of St. Paul’s Federal Courts Building and Post Office, a Richardson Romanesque Chateauesque-style public building that the federal government had constructed between 1892 and 1901, seemed imminent. When a…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2018: “Another Siberia, Unfit for Human Habitation: Saint Paul’s Super Ice Palaces 1886, 1887, 1888”
Bob OlsenAnother Siberia, Unfit for Human Habitation: Saint Paul’s Super Ice Palaces 1886, 1887, 1888 Author: Bob Olsen When a New York newspaper correspondent criticized St. Paul in 1885 as “another Siberia, unfit for human habitation,” local boosters banded together and initiated St. Paul’s first Winter Carnival in February…
Ramsey County History – Fall 2017: “‘Onward Central, Onward Central:’ The 150-Year Legacy of St. Paul Central High School”
Steven C. Trimble“Onward Central, Onward Central:” The 150-Year Legacy of St. Paul Central High School Author: Steven C. Trimble Central High School in St. Paul has been operating continuously for more than 150 years. Founded in 1866 as St. Paul High School, it opened its doors in the heart of…
Ramsey County History – Summer 2017: “A Good Turn for the Great Minnesota Get Together: The Boy Scout Service Camp at the Minnesota State Fair”
M.D. SalzbergA Good Turn for the Great Minnesota Get Together: The Boy Scout Service Camp at the Minnesota State Fair Author: M.D. Salzberg Beginning in 1913 and lasting into the mid-1970s, Boy Scouts from Region 10 camped on the grounds of the Minnesota State Fair and provided a…
Ramsey County History – Spring 2017: “A Legacy of Civic Engagement: The Junior League of Saint Paul, 1917–2017”
Yvonne Hundshamer and Abby Sugahara MoellerA Legacy of Civic Engagement: The Junior League of Saint Paul, 1917–2017 Authors: Yvonne Hundshamer and Abby Sugahara Moeller In the spring of 1917, Elizabeth Ames Jackson and two other young women founded the nineteenth official Junior League in St. Paul, thereby beginning what has become the organization’s century…
Ramsey County History – Spring 2016: “Building the New Salvation Army Rescue Home of St. Paul, 1913”
Kim HeikklaBuilding the New Salvation Army Rescue Home of St. Paul, 1913 Author: Kim Heikkla The first Salvation Army Rescue Home to assist women who were either homeless, prostitutes, addicted, or unmarried mothers, opened in St. Paul in 1898, but it and its successor were soon outgrown. Adjutant True Earle,…