Up in Osseo

Osseo boasts of being the greatest early potato producing section of the Northwest. This boast is not without foundation, anyone may see wishes to spend few hours in this thriving village. There ore literally acres and of spuds that hem so to speak, the town tn front all sides. More than ever Osseo people smiling … Read more

Memory House

Most of the items in this house are 100 years old or more and all of them are either salesmen’s samples. children’s toys. or personal keepsakes, some of them perhaps from the home of your own grandparents. The collection required thirty-three years to gather to make it ample for an entire house of ten rooms … Read more

Stage Coaching

The location of the old Gellenbeck stage station coming from St. Anthony and Fort Snelling on the dusty road to St. Peter and points South, in Minnesota Territorial days. 2, 000 guns, historic Concord coaches, food and Western hospitality extended by Osborne and Marie Klavestad. Howdy: 15 ridin’ miles from Mpls. and St. Paul.

Stillwater State Prison

Built in 1914, Stillwater State Prison is the state’s largest security institution. The facility has multiple living units.The history of Stillwater State Prison dates back to 1853 when the Territorial Prison was built on the north side of the City of Stillwater. That facility operated until 1914 when it was closed and operations were moved … Read more

Hoping for Hastings

About twenty-five miles east and south of Minneapolis, County Seat of Dakota County, a portion of the city of Hastings stretches over into Washington County. Built near the complicated confluence of the Mississippi, Vermillion, and St. Croix Rivers. This fine city is named for the first elected governor of Minnesota, Henry Hastings Sibley. Downtown is … Read more

Champlin Milling

EGGLESS CAKE Two cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 2 cups buttermilk or beaten sour milk, 2 level teaspoons soda, 1 tea- spoon each of nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and allspice, 31/2 cups Champlin Best Flour, 2 cups chopped raisins, 1 cup chopped English walnuts. Add nuts and raisins last. Bake slowly. CHAMPLIN MILLING CO. Champlin Best … Read more