Marjorie Savage

Marjorie Savage, education specialist in the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota, is a recipient of a Minnesota Historical Society 2016 Legacy Research Fellowship.

How Minnesota’s smallest state park came to be

By Marjorie Savage

July 26, 2021

Franz Jevne State Park consists of just 120 acres on the shores of the Rainy River.

Opened in 1908, the Ranier Railroad Bridge in northern Minnesota is still one of America’s busiest ports of entry

By Marjorie Savage

March 25, 2019

In 2019, traffic over the Ranier Bridge has grown to more than twenty trains a day with most pulling between 100 and 200 cars.