Minneapolis History Trivia - How much do you know?

The Minneapolis Tribune contained many local interest stories with trivia around 1870. This video shows a sampling of those stories.

[hankfrankly]

First time watcher... Very interesting. Thank you.

[overson]

It's interesting that in 1868 there was open water on the 12 of April on lake Minnetonka for fishing.. then same time of year in 1869 they were crossing the frozen rivers.

[vango]

1870 Minneapolis would have been considered to be located in eastern or central Minnesota. Southeastern Minnesota, both then and now, is comprised of the counties south and east of Dakota County.

[MegaJackpinesavage]

If you've gone to the trouble of captioning photos with news print segments, read fully the reference segments -- better conveys the composition of the day -- the "bricks", if you will.

[reneelosie]

I stayed in Minnesota for a few years I hated it, if it fell off the Earth I wouldn't care.

[anthonynelson]

You are not really big on reading whats on the page, are you?