On Colfax Then and Now :
Colfax Avenue was named for Schuyler Colfax. Born in March of 1823, Schuyler became a Unite...
Tri-state Telephone and Telegraph Company Then and Now :
The Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Company was a major competitor of Northwestern Bell Tel...
I Love a Parade :
Forty years after the The American Legion held their charter convention in Minneapolis the ...
The park board’s first interest in Lake hiawatha was to get rid of it. In 1891 the park board was intent on ensuring the flow of water in Minnehaha Creek so there would be water over Minnehaha Falls during the 1892 Republican Party Convention to be held in the city. The consensus was that the [...]
