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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 ...
Richfield is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota. An inner-ring suburb of Minneapolis, Richfield is bordered by Minneapolis to the north, Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport and Fort Snelling to the east, Bloomington to the south, and Edina to the west.
- 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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In 1908, Richfield officially became a city by adopting a President/Trustee form of government. However, residents of Richfield held town meetings dating back to May 11, 1858 - the date on which Congress admitted Minnesota into the Union.
Aug 10, 2011 · What they might not know is that the city’s origins date back as far as 1820, when Richfield was a “suburb” of Fort Snelling, Minnesota's first military base.
- Alison Nowak
On May 11, 1858, the Territory of Minnesota received approval from Congress to become the thirty second state to join the union. That same day, citizens of Minnesota's newly established town of Richland met in a schoolhouse near Richland Mills, at present-day 53rd and Lyndale, to form a municipal government.
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Founded in 1850, Richfield, Minnesota, had to wait a long time before it was officially established in 1908. After World War I I, Richfield had a huge population boom, as returning veterans chose this beautiful suburban town to settle down in with their families.
