Barn Bluff has stood over thousands of years of history in the Red Wing area
A public park since 1910, the ancient bluff serves as an impressive landmark.
Frederick L. Johnson
The ‘Mother of the Farmer-Labor Party’ didn’t really want to add the ‘D’ to the beginning
Red Wing activist Susie Williamson Stageberg spent a lifetime fighting for unpopular political and social causes.
Shipwrecked on Lake Pepin: The Sea Wing disaster
The accident ranks among the most deadly on America’s inland waterways.
Minnesotan William Colvill: A hero of Gettysburg
In early summer 1863, William Colvill, now a full colonel, commanded the First Minnesota as it approached Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Arthur Parkin and the giant cheese stunt that put Minnesota’s dairy industry on the map
After helping to boost production in the area, Parkin believed Goodhue County cheese makers should publicize their efforts.
Tatankamani led the Red Wing Dakota from alliance with Great Britain to the U.S.
Though the Mdewakanton Dakota initially fought with the British in 1812, by 1814 the Red Wing group decided to cast their lot with the United States.
From Leavenworth Penitentiary to the halls of Congress: Francis H. Shoemaker’s fiery political life
Shoemaker was convicted of improper use of the mail after calling a Red Wing banker “Robber of Widows and Orphans” in a letter.
When fire threatened Cannon Falls
Two major fires in the 1880s prompted Cannon Falls to establish a regular crew of firefighters.
Divorce and women’s rights, 1879: Muus v. Muus
Divorce in Minnesota’s nineteenth century Norwegian-Lutheran community was a rarity. Legal separation between a leading pastor and his wife was unheard of.
When wheat was king in Minnesota
In the second half of the nineteenth century many farmers throughout the state grew wheat in preference to all other crops.
The Thirteenth Minnesota and the Battle for Manila
On August 13, 1898, the Thirteenth Minnesota Infantry regiment led an American advance against Spanish forces holding the Philippine city of Manila.
Red Wing’s ‘Stone Age’ started in 1870
Thanks to the limestone bluffs and hills that surrounded Red Wing, the town became a Minnesota lime-making and stone quarrying center from 1870 to 1910.
Just don’t call it a ‘rich man’s war’: Goodhue County loyalty trials of 1918
Speaking out against U.S. involvement in World War I had its hazards for Minnesota citizens.
Creating Hamline, Minnesota’s first college
In 1854 a group of Methodist ministers founded Hamline University in Red Wing.
Minnesotan Alexander P. Anderson was the father of puffed rice cereal
Anderson’s new breakfast food would make him a nationally known figure and the face of a Quaker Oats advertising campaign for almost a decade.
Sen. A.J. Rockne was ‘Watchdog of the State Treasury’
Opponents gave him a different nickname: “Commander-in-Chief of the Hunger Brigade.”
Minnesotan Eugenie Anderson blazed trail for female diplomats
In 1949 Anderson became the first American woman to hold the rank of ambassador.
