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Ramsey County History – Fall/Winter 1976: “Board of Directors”

Ramsey County Historical Society

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Ramsey County History – Special 1976: “Minnesota Art and Artists: A Pictorial History, 1820–1914”

Rena Neumann Coen

Minnesota Art and Artists: A Pictorial History, 1820–1914 Author: Rena Neumann Coen Excerpts from the author’s book, Painting and Sculpture in Minnesota (1976), which was a Bicentennial project, along with an exhibit at the University of Minnesota Gallery. Nineteenth-century American artists, such as Seth Eastman and George Catlin, memorialized…

Ramsey County History – Special 1976: “Board of Directors”

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1976

Ramsey County History – Spring/Summer 1975: “James J. Hill: A Search for the Man Behind the Legend”

Virginia Brainard Kunz

James J. Hill: A Search for the Man Behind the Legend Author: Virginia Brainard Kunz Late in his life James J. Hill remarked, “I’ve made my mark on the surface of the earth and they [the U.S. Supreme Court] can’t wipe it out.” He knew he’d been a titan.

Ramsey County History – Spring/Summer 1975: “Fences”

Lansing Shepard

Fences Author: Lansing Shepard An essay on fences, followed by a two-page photo essay (11 images, historical and contemporary) of fences and fence-building. PDF of Shepard article…

Ramsey County History – Spring/Summer 1975: “How St. Paul Came to Lose the “Red River War””

Dennis Hoffa

How St. Paul Came to Lose the “Red River War” Author: Dennis Hoffa The Selkirk or Red River Colony, later Winnipeg, so far from St. Paul, was a vital source of commerce and wealth in the city’s first few decades. Starting in 1844, the ox carts trundled south laden…

Ramsey County History – Spring/Summer 1975: “Volstead and Prohibition: A Roaring ’20’s Memoir”

Helen Warren Pfleger as told to George A. Rea

Volstead and Prohibition: A Roaring ’20’s Memoir                                                                                       …

Ramsey County History – Spring/Summer 1975: “Board of Directors”

Ramsey County Historical Society

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Ramsey County History – Fall 1974: “John Ayd’s Grist Mill and Reserve Township History”

Donald Empson

John Ayd’s Grist Mill and Reserve Township History Author: Donald Empson Ayd Mill Road takes its name from John Ayd, a German immigrant, who bought 160 acres bounded by present-day Lexington, Victoria, St. Clair, and Randolph avenues in 1854. There in 1860 he built the only grist mill and…