MN90: Rochester History in 90-Seconds
Series produced by KRPR
a series of short, fun and engaging stories exploring the history of Rochester and the surrounding area.
a series of short, fun and engaging stories exploring the history of Rochester and the surrounding area.
80 Pieces
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In 1862, Henry Schuster arrived in Rochester with his wife and baby son in tow. The ambitious young man set up a blacksmith shop. Britt Aamodt find...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
When Olmsted County got its new courthouse in 1866, there was the question: What to do with the old one? Britt Aamodt looks back at Broadway House’...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
Rochester’s quarries turned up more than limestone. They turned up evidence of an ancient sea that covered the region 450 million years ago. Britt ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
Taylor Combs was a 34-year-old patient who’d been transferred to Rochester State Hospital, one of Minnesota’s two hospitals for the mentally ill, f...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
When the bank in Dover, Minnesota, was broken into in May 1900, the Omaha Kid, a notorious safe breaker, stood trial in Rochester. But he hadn’t ac...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
In 1899, the Conley Brothers, Kerry and Frederick, organized Conley Camera Company in Spring Valley, Minnesota. Five years later, they had a contra...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
He was Transparent Man, a life-size medical model cased in transparent plastic, designed to educate the public on human anatomy. And his public at ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
In 1938, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in Rochester to honor the Mayo Clinic for its services to veterans of the Great War. But this was ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:29
In January 2001, George Gibbs’ widow found two travel journals, which had fallen behind an old chest in the Rochester house the couple had shared f...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
During World War II, B-24 pilot Lester Fiegel of Rochester, Minnesota, and co-pilot Tom Watson, Jr., the son of IBM founder Tom Watson, Sr, ferried...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of America’s most esteemed architects when he came to Rochester in the late 1940s to design a home for a Mayo doctor. Bu...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
November 30, 1960, Ernest Hemingway checked into the Mayo Clinic for electroconvulsive therapy to help with depression. Yet, within a year, the aut...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
January 1962, a respected goose authority traveled from Illinois to the banks of Silver Lake in Rochester to investigate at its resident waterfowl....
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
The rain started after 5 p.m. on July 5, 1978. Before it ended, the Zumbro River and Bear Creek would flood their banks, five people would die and ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
Sara Bisel moved to Rochester with her husband and children in 1963. But it was what she did away from home at archaeological digs that would make ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
1864 was another year of Civil War. But in Rochester there was celebration. The Winona & St. Peter Railroad had finally arrived. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
In 1866, a group of fruit breeders gathered at the Minnesota State Fair in Rochester. They had a burning goal: to develop an apple tree that would ...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
Hubbell House in Mantorville, was a welcome stop for weary travelers, including two men who would vie for the U.S. presidential race in 1872. Here’...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
Christmas 1877, the most dangerous woman in America spoke at Heaney Hall in Rochester. Who was she? Susan B. Anthony and she wanted to give women t...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
By 1906, Zumbrota had a enviable collection of library books but no building to house them. So they sent a letter to one of the richest men in the ...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
