Steamboat on Lake Minnetonka. Whether above the waves or below, the charm of the Minnehaha stays afloat. By Elizabeth Vandam Gordy Pederson, born in 1916, recalled "his small hand fit perfectly into his mother's" while waiting at a dock on [...]
Original stone carvings and stained-glass windows after restoration. A raging fire can be the final blow to an aging building. The historic Oakland at 215 South 9th Street, now mostly encircled by surface parking, was ablaze on October 9, [...]
BY SUSAN WEINBERG When I first began genealogy research, I went out every year to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. At that time, records were not digitized, and research meant cranking through microfilm. Today, technology has changed the [...]
By Ames Sheldon During the 1950s and ‘60s, the Twin Cities was purposefully created to become a cultural center because the locally born CEOs of the major corporations and other community leaders worked to make sure they could attract talented employees who [...]
Photo by Kasey Keeler by Michele Pollard Ȟaȟá Wakpádaŋ Bassett Creek Oral History Project Since the summer of 2020, Hennepin History Museum archive has seen an increase in oral history donations. Perhaps there has never been a better time [...]
BY MARY KRUGERUD Billee Kraut and Butch Johnson lived in a barn. That’s how they were known around Hopkins and Minnetonka. They were the people who lived in a barn. When the couple purchased the gray barn on Shady Oak Road in [...]
June 30, 2023 Linden Hills History Study Group by JoEllen Haugo For more than 26 years the Linden Hills History Study Group (LHHSG) has offered local history programs in Southwest Minneapolis. The organization was initiated by history-loving neighbors. Some were volunteers [...]
This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, 2023, Vol. 82, No. 1 BY KATHLEEN KULLBERG WHAT DO WCCO RADIO and Eleanor Nesbitt Poehler have in common? Wait, you haven’t heard of Eleanor Nesbitt Poehler? Without her, WCCO may not have [...]
This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, 2023, Vol. 82, No. 1 by Charlie Maguire Returning home from a dinner on February 6, 1947, Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey asked armed police chauffeur Vern Bartholomew to pull to the curb in [...]
Jumping the tracks, paying the freight by Bill Beyer This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, 2022, Vol. 81, No. 3 Several railroads raced west from Minneapolis after the Civil War, slicing through St. Louis Park and Hopkins. In 1867, [...]
