How much do you know about 1850s Minnesota farm life? Turn to Page AA4 to take a quiz, created with help from farm staff members Ann Olson Bercher and Emily Organ. 1.

1850s Hastings pioneer handed down the hospitality gene. ... “She was the only woman around, and if any of the men got fresh she threatened to scald them.” (The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

In the 1850s, Minnesota became a summer haven for wealthy Southerners seeking to escape the heat and diseases that plagued the South. Accompanied by enslaved people, many stayed at the Winslow ...

The Preston Republican article of July 24, 1958, carried the headline “County Seat Was Coveted Prize in 1850’s”. Minnesota was still a territory in the years 1851 to 1856 so government supervision ...

In 1921, Minnesota had 28 registered automobile trails. Road construction opened northern Minnesota to recreational development, and by 1930, Minnesota boasted 2,600 miles of paved roads, up from ...

Fairchild the Gopher is the face of the Minnesota State Fair. And, since its inception, ... "One is that gophers were much more prevalent in the 1850s," she says.

The fair actually was a territorial fair first... goes back to the 1850s. Minnesota didn't become a state until 1858; so the organization is actually older than the state itself and it's the same ...