By mid-December, kids today count down the days until winter break, anticipating holiday time with family and friends at home. In the mid-1900s,...
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Past Meets Present at Maple Grove’s Historic Cemeteries
A team of Maple Grove Historical Preservation Society members has begun an aerial data collection project that uses remote sensing devices and...
The History of Three Maple Grove Lakes
If lakes could talk, what stories would Maple Grove’s lakes tell? Eagle Lake, with a maximum depth of 37 feet and a span of 285 acres, once had...
A Memorable Love
As Vera Anna Katherine Koch prepared to marry her sweetheart, Harold E. Schaefer, on October 20, 1935, the day was clear and sunny. Her soft velvet...
An Early Dedication to Education
It’s time to go back to school! Since the mid-1800s, Maple Grove’s dedication to education has been well documented. In 1858, the children of early...
A Place to Call Home
Today’s home designs differ from Maple Grove’s homes built before 1920; of the 12 remaining, three stand out. Our most familiar historic home is...
Maple Grove’s First Recorded Wedding
What comes to mind when you think of weddings? An elegant resort, an azure-blue ocean, a garden event or perhaps a warm afternoon with marshmallow...
Maple Grove History Museum Features Unique Items from ‘Pioneers of This City’
The Maple Grove Historical Preservation Society strives to save local history for all. By now, many of you are familiar with, or at least heard of,...
Were the Winnebago or Hochunk the First Inhabitants of Maple Grove?
The Winnebago were hardly given a chance to build a home in Maple Grove before they were removed. Minnesota has been the Dakota homeland for...
Historical Preservation Society Holds onto City’s Past
The Maple Grove Historical Preservation Society was formed in 1994 as a non-profit organization with the purpose of education and preserving the...
Blast From The Past
Specialists offer a vintage view of Maple Grove. The Maple Grove History Museum is filled with remnants of the early settlers as well as items from...
Maple Grove is but One Stop on the Transcontinental Railroad
To walk along a set of train tracks is to follow its path into the past. Locomotives have rules which do not burden cars and ships. These 200-ton...
Fred Rohe Led a Wave of Progression to Maple Grove’s Creameries in the 1920s
Picture a Maple Grove where townhomes are replaced with farms and horse-drawn carriages serve as transportation. This is the Maple Grove of the...
