Category: Historical
Life is One Big Road With Lots of Signs
The road names in Eagan sometimes leave you wondering what in the world was going through someones mind when they named them. We talked a while back about Pilot Knob Road but what about Yankee Doodle Road? Roads in rural communities often bear the names of those whose farms they parallel. We see this in many cases in Eagan. North of Yankee Doodle Road there is a road called Letendre, named for a family who farmed nearby in the late 1800s. You’ll find that it wasn’t uncommon for families to remain on the same parcel for generations, splitting their plat among… more
This Old House
When I read this article in the Post-Bulletin I was tickled pink. Of course, I have talked here about my fondness toward old houses, but old, well-preserved houses, are the next rung on the ladder. The author of the article, Cindy Scott explains an in depth history of the property, built in 1856 by Hiram K. Ireland, the first of many other houses around that time by Mr. Ireland. Since then the house has passed through many hands, all of whom have left their mark, and pleasantly, updated and maintained the structure. See, there are happily ever afters! Check… more
This Weekend
One of the things that I so love about Eagan is all of their festivals. That couldn’t be more true this year, with all of their fantastic events centering around their 150th birthday (which we are official Partners of). However, the event I have most been looking forward to would have to be the one this coming Sunday the vintage baseball game (and jazz concert)! more
This Crazy Little Thing They Call the Telephone
I think the telephone is one of those modern luxuries that we can’t imagine living without. I know my husband faced my proposal of giving up cell phones for a land line with boisterous laughter. (As was expected when I suggested it). With iPhones, texting, videos, games, ringers that play our favorite songs, and pretty much every phone having the capability to take pictures now, it’s really astounding to us when someone doesn’t have a cell phone, can you imagine meeting someone without a phone at all? The interesting thing is that even by 1904, 28 years after the telephone’s invention… more
Pioneers, O Pioneers!
. . . one does not need to go to a battlefield, or to find tragedies in blood, for the world’s greatest heroes. Many unknown in life, bearing its burdens under difficulties and under depressing circumstances, and under the crushing conditions of poverty and misfortune are heroes, and the women who toil with them are heroines. The writer in the early seventies knew several families in Northwest Iowa who were without money, without friends-for the world is cold and uncharitable to the borrower-whose crops were an utter failure, and where existence was continued by living on anything that was accessible, and… more
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