RCHS & Gibbs Farm wishes you and yours a very festive and happy Holiday Season! We thank all of our supporters at RCHS and Gibbs Farm, you are fulfilling our wishes for a great 2016! The image above is from a 1922 postcard, printer unknown, and features a rather athletic Santa strewing wreaths with the […]
In Honor of Pearl Harbor In honor of the 75th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor that ushered the US into WWII on December 7, 1941, at 7:48 am, we want to thank all the service men and women from Ramsey County and throughout the US, and their families. The destroyer U.S.S. Ward and […]
The RCHS collection of photos & postcards is now available online. RCHS Photograph & Postcard Research Collection RCHS has an extensive collection of historical photos and postcards that are available for searching and researching on the RCHS PastPerfect online database. If you are interested in an image for publication or another project, please contact the […]
The Fall 2016 issue of Ramsey County History magazine is now released. Ramsey County History Magazine, Vol. 51, #3 A Workplace Accident: John Anderson's Fall from the High Bridge Author: John T. Sielaff Includes: St. Paul's High Bridge: 1889-1985 Abide with Me: Grace Craig Stork, 1916 Author: Rebecca A. Ebnet-Mavencamp Production for Victory: The Ford […]
Thank you! Everyone at RCHS and the Gibbs Farm is grateful for the support of our members, donors, friends and neighbors in helping us reach so many students, families and adults in Ramsey County and beyond, sharing the multi-faceted stories of our Capital County. And we want to particularly thank all of our individual volunteers […]
Give to the Max Day Support RCHS online during Give to the Max Day – Minnesota’s very own giving day! - through the RCHS website or GiveMN.org. Join your friends and neighbors in supporting local history and RCHS’s efforts to tell the stories that preserve our past, inform our present and inspire our future. Give […]
Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 Virginia B. Kunz Award for publishing! Virginia B. Kunz Award We would like to congratulate the nominees and winner of the 2016 RCHS Virginia Kunz Award, awarded for the best articles in Ramsey County History magazine over a two-year period, in this case for the eight issues released […]
Custom House Wins Prestigious American Association for State & Local History Award It has been announced that James A. Stolpestad, author of Custom House: Restoring a St. Paul Landmark in Lowertown and publisher Ramsey County Historical Society have been awarded a 2016 Award of Merit Leadership in History Award by the American Association for State […]
The Spring 2016 issue of Ramsey County History magazine is now released. Ramsey County History Magazine, Vol. 51, #1 "Brighter and Better for Every Person": Building the New Salvation Army Rescue Home Author: Kim Heikkla Minnesota's German Forty-eighter. Albert Wolff: Brilliant Career, Tragic Death Author: LaVern J. Rippley Carl Florin, Ray Floren, and Eleven Houses […]
Help RCHS Save Lives: The HIV/AIDS Oral History Project RCHS is collecting oral histories to save lives. We are documenting the appalling gap between identifying HIV/AIDS as a health crisis and the full-scale response required to develop effective treatments, a delay that allowed the deaths of thousands. A total of 35 oral histories are being […]
The Winter 2016 issue of Ramsey County History magazine is now released. Ramsey County History Magazine, Vol. 50, #4 The West Publishing Company Buildings and Ramsey County’s Adult Detention Center Author: Paul D. Nelson Creative Destruction in the Midway Author: John W. Diers The Sullwold Saga Author: William Beyer, FAIA The Slaveholders of Payne-Phalen Author: […]
RCHS is excited to publish a beautiful new book! Custom House: Restoring a St. Paul Landmark in Lowertown Chronicling the history and revival of the historic Art Deco Post Office building on Kellogg Ave., this full-color book features over 220 maps, historic photos and other images, with engaging writing by author and historian James A. […]