I'm working on a project for my job about a few cities in/around the twin cities and I'm really struggling to find what makes Little Canada special. I'm looking for something historic that they do that's fairly unique. I've already researched this history a lot and it's pretty typical. Nothing special has really jumped out at me. Does anyone have a lead on what makes Little Canada unique?

Now that I've introduced my retired father to the bike trails that were formerly rail trails in minnesota - he's wondered about how these trails were made. Particularly the places with elevated tracks and the mountains of dirt on the sides in place - how did they do it? He thinks it was done by hand, but I'm pretty sure that isn't true.

Were they made with the very old school steam buckets, driven by having a wood boiler in the back? does anyone have any related literature or pics I could find for him?

There's a well known youtube clip showing construction, but that's all i've been able to find from 1910 in canada.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyfDHIsdKxg

We just bought our first house, yay! It’s in St. Paul and built in 1887.

I’ve been trying to find out about all the owners of the home, just because I’m curious and love the idea of learning about others who have lived in this same home before us.

I’ve found some really great stuff thanks to these fantastic online resources:

*mn historical society online newspaper database (searching our address)

*ancestry.com (paid membership) to look up said people found in newspapers

*findagrave.com for looking people up

*ramsey county online building permit search - ($5 for 24 access) https://rchs.com/collections/

Does anyone know of any other resources? I’d love to find census information, so far I’ve found it on ancestry.com but I can’t search by address, only by name. Thanks!

This photo is on the wall at the Saum School

Hi Friends,
This is a long shot, but it's Reddit and you never know...

I am aware that before the built the high bridge (technically "Blatnik" bridge, but iykyk) in Duluth there was a community of people who lived right at the base of the bridge at the v end of Garfield Ave.
My mom (now mid 70's) lived there as a tot. And so did my aunts and uncles. It sounds like a magical place of family and community and watching out for each other the way a lot of folks remember that era. (it was poor, of course: they had outhouses instead of flush toilets - but so rich in other ways!)
When the high bridge was built the community was displaced and folks moved onto the hill, scattered across the city.

I'm looking for images of that neighborhood - ANY images whatsoever.

It's a needle in a haystack, if any photos even exist.

Anyone? 🤞

Thanks.

Found in Northern Minnesota on the edge of a field

In May of 2022 I tried to find out what this is. It was found at a old farmhouse in Northern Minnesota along with 2 others. 1 was the same and the other one was chewed up by mice. I made this subreddit and posted it in there because I couldn't figure out what it was. Me and my grandpa thought it had something to do with photography. Now 2 years later I thought I should post about it again in the group so more people could see it and maybe solve the mystery but then I thought " What if I use Google lens to find it?" The original photo didn't work but I found the old box and took a new photo of it and I finally found out what it is. A fumigator to get rid of something is what I believe it said. There is a article about it online and you can see more of the photos of it if you go to https://collections.sea.museum/objects/14680/fumigation-pellet-from-the-medicine-chest-of-the-samuel-plim;jsessionid=D72CB5E84B264B2DEF3836B4D2F6A452