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Key Date: 1905
First Published: March 12, 2014
From 1898 to the early 1930s, St. Paul was the center of a national home furnishings industry based on wire grass, a plant that grew wild in the peat bogs of Minnesota and Wisconsin. For ...
First Published: March 10, 2014
In 1851 Bishop Joseph Cretin needed help to preach the Catholic faith to the growing St. Paul community. In July of that year he asked the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in Missouri to ...
First Published: March 07, 2014
The Beltrami Island Project was a pioneering land program of the New Deal enacted across hundreds of thousands of acres in northern Minnesota. Federal and state governments worked side by ...
First Published: March 05, 2014
Two of Duluth's oldest Jewish congregations—Temple Emanuel and Tifereth Israel—had little in common after they were founded in the 1890s. While Temple Emanuel was affiliated with Reform ...
First Published: March 04, 2014
Minnesota's worst known encounter with smallpox came in 1924 and 1925. Five hundred people died—four hundred of them in the Twin Cities. Almost 90 percent of the Twin Cities deaths took ...
First Published: March 03, 2014
Rosalie Wahl was a pioneering figure in Minnesota law during the second half of the twentieth century. She became the state's first female Supreme Court justice at a time when there were no ...
Key Date: 1901
First Published: February 28, 2014
When Adas Israel Congregation was founded, in 1885, by Lithuanian immigrants, members met in a house on St. Croix Avenue in what is now the Canal Park area of Duluth. It incorporated in ...
First Published: February 27, 2014
The Minnesota State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children operated from 1886 to 1947. The campus is one of the most intact examples of a state cottage school standing in the ...
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