About Graeser Park

Robbinsdale’s Graeser Park was built in 1940-41 along the new Highway 100 where it crossed the Jefferson Highway (a popular tourist route established in the 1920s that ran right through Robbinsdale on its way from … Read more

Adelaide Robbins

Adelaide Julia Walker was born in Xenia, Ohio. Her father went West in the Gold Rush, leaving her mother with four small children. He and his wagon train never returned. It is thought they all … Read more

Roberta’s History of Robbinsdale

The Shumway Farm and Hennepin County in 1874 This is the first in a series of posts we’re creating to share Roberta Lee Scoville’s Robbinsdale History paper from 1976. The picture at the top of … Read more

This Summer at Graeser Park

In conjunction with Springboard for the Arts’ Cultivate Bottineau program, Robbinsdale artist Lili Payne created a piece for Robbinsdale’s own Graeser Park, This mid-century-styled print wil be on display at the Robbinsdale Historical Society beginning … Read more

Busing, Block Scheduling and Building

1971 Charges of salary discrimination based on sex were dropped by the first woman on the Robbinsdale police force after the City Council made her a bonafide member of the force and included her in … Read more

The Village of Crystal

1887 In 1886 Minneapolis made an effort to annex all bordering townships to secure more taxable property and money for improvements and perhaps to outclass St. Paul in population. At once, the people of Crystal … Read more

Exemplary Edith

Edith Robbins Daniel, Robbinsdale, of Colonial ancestry, daughter of Andrew Bonney Robbins and Adelaide Walker Robbins. As college student and teacher she began writing poems. Boston critics pronounced her “foremost writer of children’s verse to-day.” … Read more

Another Adelaide

Adelaide Robbins Gillette is a daughter of Andrew Bonney Robbins and Adelaide Walker Robbins, Robbinsdale, Minnesota. Her musical education began at an early age with study of violin, superseded by pianoforte and vocal training. Preparatory … Read more