St. Vincent Memories

On Adams Avenue, in St. Vincent, Minnesota, W.J.S. Traill co-owned a frame grain warehouse with the firm of G.S. Barnes & Co. (The St...

I n this edition of the "Water Cooler":   A wonderful visit among old friends and neighbors brings up some interesting recollectio...

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

THE PRIDE OF OLD PEMBINA.   The Most Elegant Hostelry in Dakota, North of the Columbia at Fargo. Special to the Globe.  PEMBINA, N....

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

Where Have All The Car Dealers Gone? by Jim Benjaminson Gregory Ford's announcement last week that they are giving up their Ford...

I t all started with a trade:  One hat, for one bottle of whiskey... If there's one thing I've learned writing this blog, it...

Circa the late 1940s/early 1950s @ the Short's Cafe... 'The food is not Stranger and we are never Short on customers' ...

Despite the seeming title discrepancy,  this is  the same, correct gazetteer... ST. VINCENT [From Minnesota, North and South Dakota a...

Although I have not obtained a photograph of the mysterious Mrs. Rasche yet, I did come across one of her children in a Maryland history...

A new general store.  Short sales people on the street showing off the latest .22 rifles.  Wide new sidewalks all along Pacific Avenue...

[Click to Enlarge and See Details] This postcard shows a depiction of Hallock by an unknown artist, date also unknown.  From the lack o...

Postcard:  Crossroads of Stutsman and Cavileer Streets  [Photo Source:  Kris Kefgen 1 ] T he image above shows part of  downtown old Pe...

A s a youngster growing up in Pembina, I had a second town - St. Vincent . Wallace & Matilda Cameron's Home during 1950 flood [...

Who was the man who photographed the 1897 Red River flood in St. Vincent?  The man who took the famous "High Water" series pho...

Threshing at the Walter Hill Farm in Northcote (1900);  this was the year my grandmother began working in the farm's dairy. [Click...

T he last time we saw Daniel F. Brawley , he was conducting some rather underhanded business tactics against another resident named Na...

Elizabeth Lapp in 1948 [Courtesy:   Digital Archive, UMC ]  T hanks to Kristine Baldwin Ohmann , who facilitated our get together, I in...

Farmer's Store in Hallock (1910).  Note tea chest on left... [Photo Credit:   Minnesota Historical Society ]  My Mom and I often ...

Anthony "Tony" Merck Humboldt Depot agent T his reminicense by Margaret Matthew Panzer is full of memories and names of old ...