by Haley Prochnow | Apr 12, 2024 | Northern Exposure
As I eagerly await the restoration and re-opening of our historic municipal Auditorium in St. Croix Falls, I am collecting stories and building a timeline of the Auditorium’s many uses over the years. Ironically, the Auditorium’s shortest-lived era was its intended...
by Haley Prochnow | Mar 18, 2024 | Northern Exposure
In searching for Addie Clinton Few’s summer cottage, I couldn’t help but wonder- Is it Lutefish or Lutefisk Point? Looking back through maps and newspaper articles it is called both. Today the land along the Apple River, one mile north of Cameron Bridge in Lincoln...
by Haley Prochnow | Feb 17, 2024 | Northern Exposure
The following letter was written by St. Croix Falls resident, Mary Lovila Baker, to her husband, Major J.S. Baker, during her stay at the state-of-the-art Battle Creek Sanitarium. Major Baker was sent to St. Croix Falls in 1874 to manage the land holdings of U.S....
by Haley Prochnow | Jan 12, 2024 | Northern Exposure
Earlier this year, the Editor of the Ramsey County History publication recommended that I read the biography of Fredrick L. McGhee: A Life on the Color Line, 1861-1912 written by Historian Paul D. Nelson. The book, published in 2002 by the Minnesota Historical Society...
by Haley Prochnow | Dec 15, 2023 | Northern Exposure
I’m not originally from St. Croix Falls. I grew up in River Falls, Wisconsin, another small town south of here. When I visualize what is unique about my hometown, I think about the historic buildings and homes there. My grandparents lived across the street from the...
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