Past Events & Programs

Happy Holidays

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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 […]

In Honor of Pearl Harbor 75th Anniversary

Ramsey County Historical Society 75 W 5th Street; #323, Saint Paul , MN, United States

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, […]

RCHS Photo & Postcard Collection

Ramsey County Historical Society 75 W 5th Street; #323, Saint Paul , MN, United States

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 […]

Ramsey County History Magazine Fall 2016

Ramsey County Historical Society 75 W 5th Street; #323, Saint Paul , MN, United States

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: […]

Thank You for Your Support!

Ramsey County Historical Society 75 W 5th Street; #323, Saint Paul , MN, United States

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 […]

Give to the Max Day

Ramsey County Historical Society 75 W 5th Street; #323, Saint Paul , MN, United States

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 […]

Virginia Kunz Award

Ramsey County Historical Society 75 W 5th Street; #323, Saint Paul , MN, United States

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 Award

Ramsey County Historical Society 75 W 5th Street; #323, Saint Paul , MN, United States

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 […]

Ramsey County History Magazine Spring 2016

Ramsey County Historical Society 75 W 5th Street; #323, Saint Paul , MN, United States

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 […]

HIV/AIDS Oral History Project

Ramsey County Historical Society 75 W 5th Street; #323, Saint Paul , MN, United States

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 […]

Ramsey County History Magazine Winter 2016

Ramsey County Historical Society 75 W 5th Street; #323, Saint Paul , MN, United States

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: […]

Custom House Book Published

Ramsey County Historical Society 75 W 5th Street; #323, Saint Paul , MN, United States

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. […]