History of St. Paul and Vicinity
Author: Henry Anson Castle
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 523
ISBN-13:
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St. Paul
Author: Bill Lindeke
Publisher: Urban Biography
Published: 2021-05
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781681342009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see Minnesota's capitol city.
History of St. Paul and Vicinity
Author: Henry Anson Castle
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13:
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Author: Lois A. Glewwe
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015-12-07
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1625854137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncorporated in 1887, South St. Paul grew rapidly as the blue-collar counterpart to the bright lights and sophistication of its cosmopolitan neighbors Minneapolis and St. Paul. Its prosperous stockyards and slaughterhouses ranked the city among America's largest meatpacking centers. The proud city fell on hard economic times in the second half of the twentieth century. Broad swaths of empty buildings were razed as an enticement to promised redevelopment programs that never happened. In 1990, South St. Paul began to chart out its own successful path to renewal with a pristine riverfront park, a trail system and a business park where the stockyards once stood. Author and historian Lois A. Glewwe brings the story of the city's revival to life in this history of a remarkable community.
Subterranean Twin Cities
Author: Greg A. Brick
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published:
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 145291432X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Subterranean Twin Cities, geologist, historian, and urban speleologist Greg Brick takes us on an adventurous, educational, and-thankfully-sanitary journey beneath the streets and into the myriad tunnels, caves, and industrial spaces that make up the Twin Cities' fascinating and surprisingly vast underground landscape. In this groundbreaking tour, the first of its kind of the Twin Cities, Brick mines the stories that lie below the city surface.
Haunted St. Paul
Author: Chad Lewis
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015-09-21
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 161423115X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the phantom pig at the Minnesota State Fair to the ghostly gangsters of the Wabasha Street Caves, St. Paul bristles with haunted history. Let the spectral usher of the Mounds Theatre show you to your seat as Chad Lewis reveals why the bits of St. Paul's past that insist on intruding on the present deserve to have their stories told. By the time the lights come back on, you will be convinced that sometimes the strangest things have happened in the dorm room upstairs...or the table next to you at your favorite restaurant...or even in your own backyard.
The Street Where You Live
Author: Donald Empson
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780816647293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than one thousand entries and more than one hundred photographs present an entertaining history of the often quirky origins of St. Paul place names, from A Street to Zimmermann Place and including parks, lakes, streams, roads, cemeteries, bridges, neighborhoods, and many other landmarks. Original.
Jewish Pioneers of Saint Paul, 1849-1874
Author: Gene H. Rosenblum
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780738518626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe roots of the Jewish community of St. Paul, MN, were established in 1849, with the arrival of two American-born brothers from Pennsylvania. From these early pioneers the community grew and spread. Through the medium of historic photographs and stories, this book captures the remarkable evolution of the Jewish people of St. Paul. It is a story of the cultural, religious, economic, and everyday life of St. Paul Jews. These pages bring to life the people, events, neighborhoods, and institutions that helped shape and transform today's Jewish community. These photographs, derived from the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society and the Ramsey County Historical Society, paint a poignant and vivid picture of Jewish life in St. Paul. In addition to recalling the establishment of Mt. Zion and Sons of Jacob, the first two major synagogues in St. Paul, this book displays the distinct impact that prominent Jews of the community, such as Abram Elfelt, Judge Isaac N. Cardozo, and Isador Rose, had on the shaping of St. Paul.
A Choice of Weapons
Author: Gordon Parks
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780873517690
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Gordon Parks's spectacular rise from poverty, personal hardships, and outright racism is astounding and inspiring." --from the foreword by Wing Young Huie
The Lost Jewish Community of the West Side Flats: 1882-1962
Author: Gene H. Rosenblum
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2002-06-05
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1439630100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning in 1882, many Russian and Eastern-European Jews who fled to the United States settled in the "West Side Flats" in St. Paul, Minnesota. The area once stretched from the banks of the Mississippi River to the cliffs of the West Side Hills, about 320 acres in all, but has since fallen victim to the vagaries of the mighty river and the progress of "urban renewal." The Lost Jewish Community of the West Side Flats: 1882-1962 takes the reader on a pictorial tour down memory lane. The families, houses, businesses, streets, and synagogues-all vanished now-are brought back to life through vintage photographs from the archives of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest, the Minnesota Historical Society, and the private collections of many former residents. This is a memoir of a historic neighborhood that can no longer be visited.
