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  • The Hamiltons of Lake Calhoun

    Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd 4801 France Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Most known for Widow Hamilton's guest house overlooking Lake Calhoun (now called Bde Maka Ska), where Henry David Thoreau stayed in June 1861, members of the Hamilton family lived at […]

  • Tracing the History of Real Estate Covenants in Minneapolis

    Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd 4801 France Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Racial covenants were used to bar people of a given race, ethnic origin, or religion, from buying or occupying property in Minneapolis. These discriminatory deeds underpinned an invisible system of […]

  • Tour of Minneapolis Central Library Special Collections

    Minneapolis Central Library 300 Nicollet Mall, 4th floor, Minneapolis, MN, United States

    One of the area's best local history resources, the collection covers all aspects of the history of Minneapolis and Hennepin County and includes books, photographs, school yearbooks, archival and manuscript collections, periodicals, maps, postcards, and thousands of files of newspaper clippings. We will get an inside view of their collections including the reading room, their […]

  • Robert E. Fischer and Sand Souvenirs at Minnehaha Creek

    St. John's Episcopal Church, Linden Hills 4201 Sheridan Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Robert Fischer was the most unusual artist ever inspired by Minnehaha Falls. From about 1900 until 1940, he created tens of thousands of delicate sand designs in clear glass containers, […]

  • Architect John Jager and Information Learned from his Slovenian Home Country

    St. John's Episcopal Church, Linden Hills 4201 Sheridan Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Architectural historian and freelance writer Dick Kronick will lecture on the history of architect John Jager, who laid out the Red Cedar Lane neighborhood in southwest Minneapolis. Research conducted in […]

  • Fort Snelling at Bdote: 200 Years of History

    Historic Fort Snelling Visitor Center 200 Tower Ave., Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Fort Snelling at Bdote background reading list from Linden Hills Public Library For millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of […]

  • Trench Warfare in Midtown Minneapolis: From Railroad to Greenway

    St. John's Episcopal Church, Linden Hills 4201 Sheridan Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Just over a century ago the Minneapolis City Council directed the Milwaukee Railroad Company to construct a trench located just north of Lake Street, between Hennepin and Cedar Avenues, and […]

  • Twin Cities Hard Boiled

    St. John's Episcopal Church, Linden Hills 4201 Sheridan Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United States

    James Eli Shiffer, author of The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis, will visually take us to visit the nucleus of the old […]

  • How the Ford Motor Company Transformed Minnesota over the Past 100 Years

    Edina Library 5280 Grandview Square, Edina, MN, United States

    Author and historian Brian MacMahon will discuss how the Ford Motor Company transformed Minnesota as detailed in his award-winning book, The Ford Century in Minnesota, published by the University of […]