Saturday, March 9, 2013
Exhibit from Minnesota Historical Society with special Fridley material closes March 9, 2013.
Saturday, March 9, 2013, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. is your last chance to see the exhibit Minnesota on the Map at the Fridley History Center, 611 Mississippi St., Fridley. Robert Christenson, past president of the Fridley Historical Society, laid out the exhibit's appeal in an email this week: This coming Saturday, March 9, is the final day that the exhibit Minnesota on the Map will be available for viewing at the Fridley History Center. There are many maps of Minnesota to look at, and if you have lived in this state for any length of time, especially if you now live or formerly lived in Fridley, you will find very interesting information you may not have known. Some are aerial maps so you can view houses and other buildings from above. There is also…
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Exhibit from MN Historical Society on view Saturdays, 11 a.m.–3 p.m., through March 9, 2013.
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Here's a preview of what you'll find at the new exhibit from the Minnesota Historical Society.
Head to the Fridley History Center starting Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, to see historic maps of Minnesota and Fridley, as well as historic aerial photos of the city. The Minnesota on the Map exhibit, a collaboration with the Minnesota Historical Society and the Fridley Historical Society, features more than a dozen maps and a video station, along with several laminated maps. Anyone intrigued by the history and geography of Minnesota and Fridley will find something will find something of interest. For children there will be map and craft activities. And for anyone who is thirsty, coffee and juice will be served. Minnesota on the Map will be open each Saturday, 11 a.m.–3 p.m., from Jan. 19–March 9, 2013, at the Fridley History Center, 611 …
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Maps of the state and Fridley will be on display at the Fridley History Center starting Jan. 19.
Head to the Fridley History Center starting Jan. 19 to see historic maps of Minnesota and Fridley, as well as historic aerial photos of the city. The Minnesota on the Map exhibit, a collaboration with the Minnesota Historical Society and the Fridley Historical Society, features more than a dozen maps and a video station, along with several laminated maps. Anyone intrigued by the history and geography of Minnesota and Fridley will find something will find something of interest. For children there will be map and craft activities. And for anyone who is thirsty, coffee and juice will be served. Minnesota on the Map will be open each Saturday, 11 a.m.–3 p.m., from Jan. 19–March 9, 2013.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
The Minnesota Historical Society made an 1848 daguerrotype of Abram Fridley its 'Item of the Day.'
An 1848 photographic portrait of the man whose name the city of Fridley took as its own was the featured "Item of the Day" at the Minnesota Historical Society's website Tuesday. The daguerrotype image is 4-1/4" in height by 3-1/4" in width, plus a fancy decorative cover.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The Minnesota Legacy Fund project involves 15 interviews about the city's postwar development.
The Minnesota Historical Society announced a $5,114 grant to the Fridley Historical Society Tuesday for an oral history project about the city's postwar development. The project is one of 49 across the state—and the only one in Anoka County—to win funding in the latest round of Legacy Amendment funding awards. (The Anoka County Historical Society did not seek funding in this round, according to Executive Director Todd Mahon.) Here is the Fridley Historical Society's brief description of the planned project: The Fridley Historical Society is applying for a grant that will enable us to hire an interviewer to conduct 15 oral histories in order to explore the post World War II suburban development of Fridley, and then have the histories …
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Delivering citizen opinions was a bus ride away in '58.
What do you know about the Fridley Bus Service? Here's a photo from 1958, courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society.
