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These residents built communities on land that became known as Richfield. Minnesota's oldest suburb claim Richfield was one of the earliest postwar suburbs in the Twin Cities to be populated by veterans returning from World War II , but its claim to be Minnesota's oldest suburb date to the land's connection to Fort Snelling in the 1820s.
Once known as the fertile home of vegetable-selling truck farmers with names like Bachman and Wagner, after World War II Richfield became the classic 1950s suburb with waves of newly built ...
Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Richfield in the Postwar Era. 24 INTERVIEWS. DATE: February - October 2007. INTERVIEWER: Thomas Saylor. This project chronicles the lives of men and women who lived in the suburb of Richfield, Minnesota, following World War II.
- Early Richfield
- A Maturing Village
- Post World War II Suburban Development
- Notes
In the 1820s, some small settlements developed around Fort Snelling. By the late 1830s, the fortress served as a destination for newcomers—lumbermen, missionaries, farmers, traders and travelers—migrating to the borderlands people were now calling “Minisota.” Fort Snelling's garrison made up the bulk of the area's population, along with Henry Sible...
Market gardening industry founded
Several innovative agriculturalists founded the community's market gardening industryin the 1870s and 1880s—Richfield's trademark for the coming century. In 1885 Hattie and Henry Bachman bought 4 acres (16,000 m2) near 61st and Lyndale, close to the Minneapolis border, and started their own business. Using money Hattie earned as a seamstress, they bought horses to clear the land and, that spring, planted potatoes, lettuce, onions and squash. South Minneapolis was almost fully subdivided as th...
Disturbing infrastructure issues critical to the village's future confronted the people of postwar Richfield. The village lacked classroom space and a senior high school, it had no movie theater, no bowling alley, no baseball or football field, no swimming beach, it had no city water supply or storm and sanitary sewer systems, and it faced loss of ...
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Richfield experienced a major population boom following World War II. As a first-ring suburb to Minneapolis, Richfield quickly became a popular home for returning war veterans in the late 1940s and 1950s. From 1940 to 1960, Richfield's population grew from under 10,000 to 42,500.
Richfield’s farm fields filled with homes during the twenty-five years following World War II. By 1970 all developable land in the community was taken. Home construction crews applied the “mass-production” systems perfected by the American auto industry.
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Nov 16, 2012 · Houses on the 6400 block of Humboldt Avenue South, Richfield, in 1957. Big challenges are facing those comfy old suburbs where many of us grew up. Only a few decades ago, towns that mushroomed up...
