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May 11, 1858
- On May 11, 1858, Congress approved the Territory of Minnesota as the 32nd state to join the union. That day, local citizens met in a schoolhouse at present-day 53rd and Lyndale to form a municipal government. At that meeting, those who previously said they lived in Harmony or Richland Mills chose the name Richfield for their community.
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Named for its rich black prairie soil, Richfield in 1858 stretched over 63 square miles, encompassing what is now Minneapolis from Lake Street south, Edina and St. Louis Park, part of Hopkins,...
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.
Published weekly since before 1994, [3] publication subsequently ceased in November 2018, when it merged with the Richfield Sun Current to form the Bloomington-Richfield Sun Current. The paper was originally published in Bloomington, but later the editorial moved to Eden Prairie.
A Brief History of Richfield Public Schools. Long before suburban homes were built here, Richfield was characterized by its abundance of rich farmland (hence the name) as the Minneapolis and St. Paul area was beginning to grow. In 1908, Richfield officially became a city by adopting a President/Trustee form of government.
The Richfield edition of Sun Current was published weekly in Edina, Minnesota and later Bloomington, Minnesota and Eden Prairie, Minnesota between August 1984 and November 2018 when it merged with the Bloomington edition of Sun Current to form the Bloomington/Richfield edition.
Today's boundaries differ markedly from those originally set forth on April 10, 1858, by the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners when they established the towns of Richland, Minneapolis, Bloomington and Eden Prairie. Electors of the newly created Richland met on May 11, 1858, and changed the name of their town to Richfield.
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Richfield Historical Society collects, preserves, and shares the story of Richfield, Minnesota, from its time as a large rural township that encompassed much of south Minneapolis and many surrounding communities to its growth as a market farming center and its early development as a suburb.
