Ramsey County History – Fall 1985: “Growing Up on Dayton’s Bluff—A Turn-of-the-Century Boyhood”

Growing Up on Dayton’s Bluff—A Turn-of-the-Century Boyhood
Author: Karl H. Trout

The author recalls the everyday life of a boy who lived in the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood. His family lived on Burns Avenue in a home with no central heat, gas, or electric heat. Warmth was provided from coal in a basement furnace. The family used kerosene lamps for light and iceboxes for refrigeration. Children amused themselves by playing marbles and riding bicycles. They frequently went to the nearby State Fish Hatchery for entertainment.

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