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 is an amateur historian and the author of Fredrick L. McGhee, A Life on the Color Line, 1861–1912 (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002), as well as numerous articles for Ramsey County History and Minnesota History magazines.
Minnesota’s first experiment in juvenile justice operated in St. Paul from 1868 to 1891.
From 1898 to the early 1930s, St. Paul was the center of a national home furnishings industry based on wire grass.
Almost 90 percent of the Twin Cities deaths took place in Minneapolis.
By Paul Nelson
March 25, 2014