What to do with ‘incorrigible’ boys? Minnesota State Reform School
Minnesota’s first experiment in juvenile justice operated in St. Paul from 1868 to 1891.
Paul Nelson
Weaving a fortune out of Minnesota marsh grass
From 1898 to the early 1930s, St. Paul was the center of a national home furnishings industry based on wire grass.
Smallpox epidemic of 1924–25 claimed the lives of 500 Minnesotans
Almost 90 percent of the Twin Cities deaths took place in Minneapolis.
