St. Vincent Memories

Left to right :  Mrs. Zaharia, Margaret 'Toots' Ryan, Florence Godon, Esther Cleem (Florence and Esther were Thiefault sisters...), ...

 John Boucher - Back row, on left (1855)  Provision was made in the ninth article of the treaty of October 2, 1863 (aka Old Crossing ...

Shared by Lori Wood Goertzen: This photo was a Christmas gift from my favorite Sunday school teacher, Clara Loer.  Left to right: Debbie Dy...

  "... W ith the rapid movement of railroad building into the northern part of the valley, the opening of large farms continued unabate...

John K. "Jack" McCulloch Jack McCulloch came to Pembina to put on an exhibition skating, the year he turned professional.  I...

In Minnesota fairs are older than the state itself, having  "made their appearance ... in the early 1850's," just at the  zen...

These are photographs from the Larson Family Collection. Before there was an Interstate Drive-In (just west of the old KCND-TV building i...

Matters of jurisdiction happened quite often in our area, due to the fact that we are close to an international border, as well as two stat...

PHOTO INFO:  A stereoview showing the railroad track along the eastern bank of the Red River in St. Vincent.   This track is the continuat...

R ecently, I came across an online post by someone who mentioned that his grandfather had worked on the St. Vincent Extension line.  Whil...

L ena Cameron Mortimer was born into a farming family in St. Vincent, Minnesota.  She became a Socialist Party activist and married t...

The carriage looks suspiciously like our ' Mystery Man ' again!  Could it be?! Source:   Digital Horizons , State Historical So...

Pioneer Express January 3, 1908 The New Year was ushered in by the bells of the city echoing with those of St. Vincent and Emerson, a...

I present to you, one of St. Vincent's early pioneers - John A. Vanstrum. A veteran of the Civil War, he became very civic-minded, serv...

"The term was finished in two and a half days, and the balance of last day, awaiting the arrival of the train south, was spent fishing...

Percy's grave is in the St. Vincent Cemetery Sgt Major Percy John Edkins U.S. Marine Corps O n May 18, 1917, the Selective Serv...

Electus Backus Litchield "Flagrantly & monumentally impudent" H ow did the St. Vincent Extension (which was the rail line...