LINKS TO: Minneapolis History
LOCAL HISTORY AND INFORMATION History of the City of Minneapolis, early settlers, cemeteries, churches, misc. historical and community information.
NORTH
MINNEAPOLIS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The North Mississippi Historical
Society was founded in 1997 to research, preserve, and interpret the
environmental, cultural, architectural, and personal history of North and
Northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota. Address: 5113
30th Ave N. Minneapolis, MN 55429. Ph.
612-536-0475
Minnesota Pioneer Sketches
from the Personal Recollections and Observations
of a Pioneer Resident By FRANK G. O'BRIEN Illustrated. Minneapolis,
Minnesota. H. H. S. ROWELL, PUBLISHER The Housekeeper Press 1904.
At the age of twelve, Frank G. O'Brien (1843-1920) moved from
Maine to Minnesota with his father and siblings, settling in Anoka County in
1855. After a difficult winter, the family moved to St. Anthony's Falls
where O'Brien spent his adolescence combining a variety of manual and
entrepreneurial jobs with education. Minnesota Pioneer Sketches is a collection
of newspaper feature articles written by O'Brien that are here published in book
form. The articles describe his own youth as well as notable events during the
second half of the nineteenth century in Minnesota. He discusses farming,
transportation, the U.S. mail, politics, Indians, the Civil War, religious
practices, lumber camps, education, and other topics associated with pioneer
life and the growth of the state. (Many names of early St.
Anthony and Minneapolis residents are also mentioned in this
work)
CLICK HERE TO READ ACTUAL PAGES FROM THIS BOOK. AMERICAN MEMORY This link
will take you off-site and to the Table of Contents of the book.
Original Street names in Minneapolis and St. Anthony Also see http://www.tholt.com/street.html
Minneapolis Alphabet Streets - Did you ever wonder where the names of the alphabet streets came from?
RESOURCES ON MINNEAPOLIS HISTORY (Still under construction, but worth checking out)
MINNEAPOLIS HISTORY & FACTS Worth checking out!
MINNEAPOLIS SCENES IN POSTCARDS
PHILLIPS NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY
This is a great site for anyone researching the history of the
Phillips neighborhood of south Minneapolis!
Click here for boundary map of the Phillips neighborhood,
then go to the website where
you'll find many interesting photos of some of
the homes in the area, a database of veterans
buried in the Pioneer and
& Soldiers Cemetery, also known as "Layman's Cemetery", located
on Lake
Street and Cedar Ave. South. The 1859-1860 Minneapolis & St. Anthony
Directory,
and three months of misc. newspaper articles from February, March
and April of 1909. Many
contain names of citizens, and addresses where they
lived or events took place, and misc. items.
A GREAT resource, but
interesting as well.!
"WALK ON THE WILD SIDE THURSDAY NIGHT
HIKES"
FAIR OAKS HIKE
LAKE OF THE ISLES
HIKE
Ever
wonder who built and lived in some of the beautiful homes and mansions around
Lake of the Isles and Park Avenue in Minneapolis, and who own them today? The
"Walk on the Wild Side Thursday Night Hikes" is an unincorporated unstructured
aggregation of hikers that has been in existence as a group for about a decade,
does not charge for any interested hiker to participate in a hike, and is wholly
unprofitable. Larry Martin has written a perspective of these structures to be
seen on a hike for hike participants designed solely to shed light on the
character of a building and a neighborhood rather than to be definitive
research. His narrative also includes interesting information on the past and
present residents as well. He has gathered information from
the City of Minneapolis property information
and Hennepin County property tax information, city directories
available from the Minnesota Historical Society, and old Hennepin County and
Minneapolis City biographical collections held by
MNHS.
List of residents of the
Bohemian Flats -
Click on map to enlarge
Plat map of the Bohemian Flats in Minneapolis
showing names of residents--dated 1922.
City Hall/Courthouse
350 S
5th St Rm 105
Minneapolis, MN 55415
612)
673-2150
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