Category: Research
Make History Contest: Kinds of Projects
We’re quickly coming up on the halfway point for our Make History Contest, and let me tell you how excited I am one more time: I’m SO EXCITED! What can I say?  I love, love, love my job and the idea of being able to sit down and work with someone who might not normally think to record the history of their life, loved one, or family is thrilling! So, I’m posting this two part “how-to” for explaining the “project you have in mind” in the hopes that it encourages ALL of you to enter. We’re giving away three packages… more
Ten Commandments (of the Bar)
It has been a busy week, we spent last weekend and the first half of last week driving through Wisconsin for a wedding, and of course there was plenty of stopping to explore historic landmarks along the way. For the rest of the week and most of this past weekend, I was neck deep in research trying to catch up! Of course, not all research is work, (ahem, if you haven’t noticed, especially not for me..) equipped with a glass of red wine (courtesy of my wonderful husband) and a bag of dark chocolate kisses (Id.)– I found this: more
Real Estate Agent? We can help!
One of the services that The Historium offers is to Real Estate Agents and Buyers. If you are looking for a historic house, you aren’t just looking for a house. You are looking for a deeper connection to the people that lived there before you. There is a lot you can pick up just from visiting a house, the fixtures and updates, the lot size and shape, all of this information can help you learn more about the people who built their lives in the home. But there is a lot more to be learned about these houses than meets… more
Mobsters execute Robbery in South St. Paul
Well, better late than never. Or so it might be said, but without further ado, here is Part II of my previous posting Dakota County, Gangster Territory? After what had to have been months of watching the police escort the money bags off of the train at the Chicago Great Western Railroad at South St. Paul, the day had finally arrived. It must have been months because of the precision with which the heist was carried out. Every Wednesday at the same time each morning the train arrived at the station, and up the stairs into the South St. Paul… more
Dakota County, Gangster Territory?
While doing a bit of research for my new piece for the Dakota County Historical Society, I came across a reference to the “Hollywood Inn Raid at Mendota.” My mind began to reel, the paper I was reading was from the 1930′s…Oh, the possibilities! Lets take a step back to the year 1932  in the midwest for a moment. Prohibition was in full force, so it is quite possible they were bootlegging. It’s also not as if drugs and prostitution weren’t occurring in that era. However, what I found was what I had been hoping for… Gangsters! more
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