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Ramsey County History – Winter 2004: “A Century Ago: Hundreds of Thousands Greet the Liberty Bell the Day It Came to Town”
Susan C. DowdA Century Ago: Hundreds of Thousands Greet the Liberty Bell the Day It Came to Town Author: Susan C. Dowd The Liberty Bell, with its twenty-four-inch-long crack, came to St. Paul on June 6, 1904. The nation’s “most cherished relic” was on its way from Philadelphia to St. Louis…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2004: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyBook Reviews Georgia Ray, ed., Memoirs of Grace Flandrau (St. Paul: Knochaloe Beg Press, 2003). Moira F. Harris, Fire & Ice: The History of the Saint Paul Winter Carnival (St. Paul: Pogo Press, 2003).
Ramsey County History – Winter 2004: RCHS Donors
Ramsey County Historical SocietyPDF of RCHS Donors…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2004: Letters to the Editor
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“Bought 2 Horses & a Wagon:” The Story of the Murphy Companies
Virginia Brainard KunzThis is the story of how E. L. Murphy Sr. established his business, gradually converted it from horses to trucks, suffered through the takeover of Murphy Transfer and Storage Company and Murphy Motor Freight Lines by a St. Paul bank in the midst of the Great Depression, and how brothers…
Ramsey County History – Fall 2003: “St. Paul Underground: The University Farm Experimental Cave and How St. Paul Became the Blue Cheese Capital of the World”
Greg A. BrickSt. Paul Underground: The University Farm Experimental Cave and How St. Paul Became the Blue Cheese Capital of the World Author: Greg A. Brick Willes Combs, a professor of Dairy Industry at the University of Minnesota, was buying mushrooms at a West Side cave and saw that the humidity…
Ramsey County History – Fall 2003: “A Pillar of Modern Psychology: Alfred Adler and His 1937 Lecture at the Historic St. Paul Women’s City Club”
Roger BallouA Pillar of Modern Psychology: Alfred Adler and His 1937 Lecture at the Historic St. Paul Women’s City Club Author: Roger Ballou This article tells the story of the time the St. Paul Women’s City Club hosted a speech by famous psychologist Alfred Adler on March 8, 1937. The…
Ramsey County History – Fall 2003: “‘Laid to Rest by Strangers’ Hands’ Death in the Railroad Yards: The Century-old Mystery of a Beautiful Young Woman”
Susan C. Dowd‘Laid to Rest by Strangers’ Hands’ Death in the Railroad Yards: The Century-old Mystery of a Beautiful Young Woman Author Susan C. Dowd In the late evening on March 12, 1902, a young woman was run over by a train just west of the railway station at Dayton’s Bluff.
Ramsey County History – Fall 2003: “Gibbs Museum Heritage Orchard and the Comeback of the Ancient Apple”
Ralph ThraneGibbs Museum Heritage Orchard and the Comeback of the Ancient Apple Author: Ralph Thrane This article deals with the history of apples, written by the resident horticulturist at the Gibbs Heritage Orchard. Ralph Thrane studied and sought out fruit that shows the diversity of the apples and that would…