My Pioneer Grandfather
Every family has a member to whom it can point with pride and say that person has done something worthy of remembering. Such a member of our family was my grandfather. He will long be … Read more
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Lars Nasett’s Store
Lars Nasett came from Wisconsin in 1887 with an uncle, I. J. Nasett, who was drawing the plans for the Lutheran Seminary. His wife and family came a year later. Lars worked with his uncle … Read more
A.B. Robbins Arrives
This is the second in a series we’ve put together to share Roberta Lee Scoville’s Robbinsdale History paper from 1976. The image at the top of the post features our old village hall and … Read more
True Confessions, Northern Headlights and the Eastern Star
ROBBINSDALE HAS Progressive Community Spirit Wide awake Commercial Club Thriving Religious Institutions Finest School in the state, well manned and equipped The BEST WATER (by analysis) in the state Broad loyal streets-two miles of paving … Read more
Mr. Robbins Comes to Town
This is the fourth in a series of posts featuring Mrs. Henry E. Hartig’s, History of Robbinsdale. Prepared for the Robbinsdale Library Club, Hartig noted that while the material she used came from a variety … Read more
West Broadway and Brookdale
1962 On February 20, 1962, the citizens of Robbinsdale, along with the rest of the nation, marveled at John Glenn’s rocketing into space and circling the earth three times. We anxiously awaited his “splash down” … Read more
Waiting for the Mail at the Depot
Perly Malbon was the village mailman for many years. In early years of the twentieth century, mail bags were tossed off trains at the Robbinsdale Depot and pushed back to the post office in a … Read more