Ramsey County History – Spring 1996: “Digging into the Past: The Excavating of the Claim Shanty of Heman and Jane Gibbs”

Digging into the Past: The Excavating of the Claim Shanty of Heman and Jane Gibbs

Author: Thomond R. O’Brien

In 1995 the Ramsey County Historical Society excavated Jane and Heman Gibbs’s first dwelling on what is now the Gibbs Farm in Falcon Heights. This article describes what was found and what was learned.

PDF of O’Brien article