"...All of them left home hoping for a better life: enough land to raise food for their children, a country where there were no rigid classes – America...seeking new homes, good land, in a wide, strange, frightening, rich, wonderful . . . — — Map (db m247745) HM
The Rum River, a 148 mile river of gradual grade, is rich in history. The French explored it. The Chippewa and Sioux fought along it, and the pine logs that helped build the cities of the Midwest were floated down it during the lumber boom of the . . . — — Map (db m94721) HM
In 1887, the county commissioners recommended passage of an act authorizing the issuing of bonds for the purpose of building a courthouse and jail int he amount of $8,000.
D. O. Anderson offered to donate the land and P.J. Lind (pictured . . . — — Map (db m146937) HM
With vacations scheduled around potato picking, Christmas and springtime mud, Spencer Brook School opened its doors in 1858 to become the first of 67 rural schools organized in Isanti County Minnesota. It was also the first school in the county to . . . — — Map (db m146904) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
