Ramsey County History – Summer 1994: “When Women’s Work Was Rarely Done?”

When Women’s Work Was Rarely Done?

Author: Tamara C. Truer

A careful look back at the lives of the women who lived on Ramsey County’s market garden farms during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For most of these farm women, housework and care for their families filled their days and visits to St. Paul were infrequent. In addition church-related activities and schooling of their children took up much of their free time. Thus the author questions whether the “good old days” were really so good after all.

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