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87-1429 WHITE - C�TV CLERK PINK - FINANCE GITY OF SAINT PALTL Counci! GANARY - DEPARTMENT 7 BLUE - MAVOR File NO. • -�� Council Resolution Presented By � ��/v- !` / Refe e To Committee: Date Out of Committee By Date WHEREAS, the Ayd family has a long history of land record ownership and development in the City of Saint Paul. In 1860, John Kaydon Ayd and his family built a manor house and grist mill on what is now Jefferson Avenue and 35E rightrof-way. This property is roughly bounded by St. Clair Avenue, South Lexington Parkway, Victoria Street and Pleasant Avenue (see the attached Historical Records and map) ; and, WHEREAS, the old mill house built in 1860 remained until 1930 whsn Jefferson Avenue was constructed. The Ayd property was further divided when the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway (Short Linel rightrof-way was constructed. A road was built along the railroad rightrof-aray in tI�e 1960's and named after said railroad; and �REAS, it is proposed to rename the Short Line Road betw�een Jefferson Avenue and Selby Avenue to AYD MILL ROAD; and� WHEREAS, the District Councils in this area have indicated support for the proposed street name change= TI�REFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Short L3:ne Road between Jefferson Avenue and Selby Avenue shall hereafter be known and designated by the name of AYD MILL ROAD. COUNCILMEN Requested by Department of: �- Yeas Drew Nays � Nicosia Pub1iC WOrks FJH:aj j 8/31/87 Rettman In Favo[ �J Sonnibel „ �_ \✓[�/��J��:.Lti� e.,�"'" _ Against BY � �� Donald E. Nyqaard ector wilson QCT - 1 �87 Form Approv y City Attorney Adopted by Council: Date . Certified Pas• c� b7� u cil tary BY � � sy� A►pprov b Mavor. Dat �` �� — � � 7 Approve ayor for S io to �ouncil B _ — B F'�,° ,�`,� _ „ i�8 7 �� `�� T� �•� CITY OF SAINT PAUL �,• ; , • • HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION ; i'�,°�� Q� _ � , • ^� ' 25 West Fourth Street,Saint Paul,Minnesota,55102 "" 612-292-1577 GEORGE UTIMER MAYOR September 30, 1987 , President and Members of the City Council .;, RE: Name Change of Short Line Road to Ayd Mill Road � ' ., Dear President and City Council Members: This is in response to your request for HPC review of the proposed name change of Short Line Road to Ayd Mill Road. A June 9, 1987, Council Resolution sates that any proposed name change for a Saint Paul city street which has had its current name for fifty years or more shall be reviewed and commented on by the HPC prior to City Council action. Short Line Road was constructed between 1961 and 1965. It was named Short Line Road by Council Resolution on January 26, 1965. Since Short Line Road has not had its current name for fifty years or more, HPC review of the proposed name change is not required under City Council Resolution. According to Donald Empson's guide to the street names of Saint Paul, TY►e Street Where You Live, Short Line Road "takes its name from the adjacent railroad tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad, known locally as the Short Line because it runs only from Saint Paul to Minneapolis. Upon its construction in 1880, this was one of the major commuter. trains for the (then) suburbs of the city. Stations were at Victoria Avenue (Ridgewood) , Marshall Avenue (Macalester Park) , and at Prior Avenue (Merriam and Union Parks) ." The proposed name Ayd Hill Road, is taken from the first and only grist mill in Reserve Township. The mill was built by John Ayd and located at the southern terminus of what is now Short Line Road. • � Both the existing name and the proposed name have significance in Saint Paul history and are fitting names for the road. Yours truly, , � �,`; � �� _ __ - �, V-a-r��.-_ �� -�.� .�;.� /� � � Allan L. Torstenson �� Preservation Planner ALT:ss . � ' � � . .� . . , ��9 Publ�c Works ;' DEPARTMENT N� 3001 ' Frank J. Hogrefe I CONTACT 292-6130 ; PHONE ree�, eet September 1, 198 DATE ASSIGN NUMBER ffOR ROUTING ORDER ( Cli� All Locations for Signature�: ��C �� --� _1_ I r -� 3 Director of Ma�r ag�menUMayor Finance and Man�agement Services Director 4 City Clerk Budget Director ; _ _„ r:�.. �..__�ey � ---� -�- ,' WHAT WILL BE AC�-IIEVED BY TAKING ACTION ON THE ATfACHED MATERIAL? (Purpose/Rationale): The change of the n�me of this street from Short Line Road to Ayd Mill Road will albw for a more appr�priate street name that has historical s 'rficance in this area. i RECEI� P . SEP � 21987 New street name si�ns will be installed within present budgets. T M�lYOR'S Of?I�t�E � �L I �L I ; � �� i ��L � ENAI I i � : (Mayor's signature not i`� required if under$10,000) � � Total Amount pf Transaction: N/A 1 �; Funding Sourc�: , � ' I� Activity Numb�er: �C ' � � ATTACHMENTS f(�I�ist and Number All Attachements�: �,�� F �� N Resolution �•P • $,�� Historical Rec rd � J�. Map ��lyN��MAr� � RF�, � � � � �� ITY ATTORNEY REVIEW � � _X_ Yes No Council Resolution Required? Resolution Required? _X Yes No � _ Yes No Insurance Required? Insurance Required? _ Yes _X_ � __ Yes _ No Insurance Attached: � � Revised 12/84 � � � �'� _ _- ' I ' t7 �1 t �,►� � > 0 1y�'y � �:' i i� l�J �J LJ l.J L—� `--J L_.J`_�v G ,o(��7� ` � � � �v� ; ��uMea� �, o : '2 � ° < v� � � . 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Page 8 Number 2 Promoters Waxed Lyric�l in "Selling" St. Paul By Virginia Brainard Kunz . . . . . . . . . Page 15 The 1850's: • Shaping of St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 22 RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORY is published semi- ON THE COVER: Drawing of Ayd's Mi!!, published annually and copyrighted 1975 by the Ramsey County July 12, 1889, in St.Anthony Hill Graphic. This is the and Saint Paul HistoricaI Society,75 West Fifth Street, only i//ustration of the mill known to the author of the St.Paul,Minnesota.Membership in the Society carries artic%beginning on page 3. with it a subscription to Ramsey County Hrstory.Single issues sell for 51.50. Correspondence concerning con- ACKNOWI.EDGEMENTS:Unlessotherwiseindicated, tributions should be addressed to the editor. The Society assumes no responsibility tor statements made P�ctures used in rhis issue are jrom the audio-visual by centriburo�s. Manuscripts and other editorial ma- departmentofiheMinnesotaHistoricalSocietv,St.Paul. terial are welcomed but no payment can be made for contributions. All articles and other editorial material submitted will be carefully read and published, if ac- cepted,as space permits. 2 ,.. ��'"��", � � � � � .� , ��1� i�� ohn A d's Grist 1VIi11--And J y �eserve Townshi Histor p Y By Donald Empson �(T jhen you drive up the Jefferson Avenue ledge that the land was soon to be sold, and ,' !/�/ hil: in St. Paui from Victoria Street to the squatters assumed, correctly, that ±hey Lexington Parkway, look off to your right would lhave first claim. On September 11, at that undevelcped piece of land now bi- 1854, at a land auction in Stillwater, John '- sected with the construction of Highway Ayd purchased that quarter section from 35E. Here in 185�J, John Ayd built the first the United States government for $1.25 and only grist mill in Reserve Township. an acre.^ The story of t"i�early mill began 175 years THE SAME MONTH, John Ayd and his ago, in December of 1799, when John Kay- � son, Leonard, are recorded as traveling up don Ayd was bo:n in the parish of Ersingen, the north fork of the Crow River. In Frank- Baden, Germany. One of eight children of fort Township, Wright County, he staked a John Leonard and Thecla Ayd,he was reared claim for himself, his sons, and his brother, in Ersingen. His !'ather was a well-to-do Edward. Soon after, he invested in a claim tavernkeeper.' at the mouth of the Crow River, opposite Arour_d 1840, b}� ihen wealthy in his own the village of Dayton, where he laid out right, Ayd emigrated to the United States. Ayd's Town(for some reason, the name was He settled first in Piopolis,Hamilton County, spelled"Aydt" in Wright County). This trip Illinois about sixty miles west of Evansville, marked the beginning of a 109-year relation- Indiana, where he purchased property and ship between the dual residence of the Ayd lived for e,even years. In 1851, he and his brothers at St. Michael in Wright County, brothers, Theodore and Edward, journeyed and St. Paul in Ramsey County.5 by steamer down the Ohio River to Cairo, John's whereabou:s during the next six Illinois, then up the Mississippi to St. Pau1.2 years is uncertain, for he is not listed in the Theodore Ayd settled on what is now 1857 statehood census. By 1860, he is listed Como Park, built a log cabin and, with a as a farmer, living with his wife, sons Ed- team.of korses brought from St. Louis, Mis- Ward and Rudolf,and a daugliter,Catherine, souri, began to clear the land. His children in Reserve Township, the southwestern part were iater to r.:��*y into the pioneer Robert- of St. Paul. John owacd 510,000 in real son and Larpent�ar families, and to change estate, the result of stead� investment in the spelling of their name to "Ayde."3 property.Living in the same area, but to the John Ayd, and his wife, Clementina, set- west and closer to the river, were Conrad tled dowr.on a qvarter section — 160 acres Ayd and his wife, Elizabeth, who may have , — between present-day Randolph and St. been relatives of John.e Clair Avenues, Victoria Street and Lexing- In 1860,John Ayd also built the house and ton Parkway. They were "squatters," with- grist mill on his Jefferson Avenue property. out title to the land, probably because it Over the door, he carefully placed a stone still was part of rhe Fort Snelling military slab bearing the inscription, "Erbant von reservation.However,it was common know- Joh. K. Ayd, Anno Domino 1860." AI30UT THE AUTHOR: Donald Empson is assistant reference/ibrarian n�the Minnesota Historica!Society. The capacity of the nCW mill, W1th its A �raduate oJ [he Universrty of Minnesota, he has water-powered wheel, was twenty-two sacks taught at the Univencity of lowa,lowa City.His specia[ of corn per day. Water came from a mill interest is the history of St. Pau1, its early rea/ estate pond up the hill and descended to the mill transactions and how street names reflect city history. � on an o en flume. The stream su 1 in An artrele by Mr. F_mpson on the history of Reserve p PP y g Township appeared in the Fall, 1973, issue o/'Ramsey the mill pon�had its source near the present- Cou�cy H;scory. day intersection of Randolph and Hamline 3 � �,�.'„�^,^"�,'... � . � � � � � : . � , � �',/�='�r�i�/�� _ � . � , � .s �„ ..r .. �� ...,�,, ',�. _' �,{,�3 +� � - r �� ` ''^�} �.'• �� ' 'A� � , ��- /. { � � � ' , r .' �� / � \'�``�-.�,�-� ' �� w �, � _ ��, f� '_� "`'- � r �;� �'r- .{ �� . „`� �.f��6 t � � , ' �' i � �h� ,� "'/i � I{{I '� �"w �+..... � �•�r�� 'V , \'�v � .r. ,t�" �' } � c. ,. , ' �s� � �'. `' � ._. >>,,�r'•c. � �� '� —,�, ,�`•• ��,. �:- �, ; �tj� ., = � -�: � �:� '� � �S.ti r' l� �-,- � � 1��11t. M , �' ' ilq�N! i ' a' � � ?y".�- `� � �� k / �• 't � / , � .,;.��'� " - - � ��,� -_ � :1 - � � .� � Avenues on property owned by F.Ayd,most The Mill House in 1889, also from the St. likely John's nephew. The brook ran along A�thony Hi11 Graphic of July 12, 1889. Com- the east side of Hamline, then north past pare this sketch with the picture on the St. Clair, where it dropped into the ravine opposite oage. running southeast. Railroad tracks later In 1866, Rudolf Ayd sold the mill and followed the ravine.6 house to Charles Kramerath and his wife, THE MILL was reached by a recently- Maria.13 With this sale, the Ayd family gave completed wagon road which descended up control of the mill and house, although the hill from St. Clair Avenue. This was the they continued to own adjacent land for first township road of Reserve Township many years. The family alternated between y and it served nearby farmers such as Wes- St. Michael and St. Paul until the 1880's � singer, Herrn, Knapheide, Peters, and when many of them came to live permanent- Stoltz.9 ly in the West Seventh Street area, near Jef- By 1864, Ayd had sold the south sixty ferson and Randolph Avenues.The Ayd Hall acres of his farm (between Pleasant and at 1033 West Seventh Street remains as a Randolph Avenues,Victoria Street and Lex- brick testimonial to the three pioneer ington Parkway) to Michael and Catherine brothers and the forty or more of their de- Kuhn, whose descendents remained on the scendants living in St. Paul today.,a land for the next century.10 The remaining Charles Kramerath, the new owner of the one-hundred acres were subdivided among mill,was a Prussian-born miller, aged 44; his the children in August, 1864. The two sons, wife,Maria,38,was from Luxembourg.Both Edward and Leonard Ayd, and two sons-in- had migrated from New York state to Min- law,John Zachman and Peter Schmitz,each nesota around 1860.15 received twenty-two acres. A third son, Upon acquiring the mill, the Krameraths Rudolf Ayd, was given ten acres, including began to improve it, taking out 51,600 worth the mill and house."After this division of of mortgages in the next several years.1e The his property, John Ayd returned to Wright grounds had been laid out in the manner of County where he died. He was buried Octo- an old German country house; to this charm ber 15, 1867, at St. Michael.'2 Mrs. Kramerath added 30l? salmon trout to 1 ! � 4 � !'T�!"'"'E�a,� . - ' , . � _ : . ��'�� i' the mill pond so sportsmen could come and The railroad brought disaster to the mill, fish, turning it into a favorite country resort for it cut off the water power from the mill for many St. Paul people. Mr. Kramerath stream, ruined the mill pond, and killed overhauled the mill and added new machin- the trout.22 ery, but their efforts were not profitable. In 1883, the mill, house, and adjacent ONE REASON for their lack of success Property were sold to Adam Kidd, a partner was that the lower part of the property, With Warren Carpenter in the Eureka Stone around the mill, contained several springs Company.23 Carpenter was well-known for that often turned the ground into a swampy his"Lookout"at the top of Ramsey Hill, the mire,making it difficult for the heavily laden site of today's Summit Outlook Park.He and � teams to get to the mill." Unfortunately, Kidd built a second viewpoint,called"Ridge- this ground water was supplemented by seep- �'ood Lookout,"on the hill north of the old age from additio7al springs in the surround- Ayd mill.It had a lemonade and band stand, - ing hillsides.'e T'his swamp was to linger for With water pipes and fountains.24 One writer over a century and to hinder the construc- later suggested that the"Jefferson-Lexington- tion of a later road, Highway 35E.'s Pleasant estates might have become another mineral spring oasis."25 In 1874, Kramerath, in the midst of more THE "RIDGEWOOD LOOKOUT" did financial difficulties,took out a�1,000 mort- � not last long,however,for Warren Carpenter gage at 12 percent interest, but he was un- died in 1886.28 The following year, the area able to pay the principal and interest. The �yas divided into building lots and named mi:l property was told for �1,900 at a mort- �°Ridgewood Park Addition."27 gage foreclosure sale held on the courthouse steps at 10:00 a.m. September 2, 1878.20 In 1887, in anticipation of the growth of the Ridgewood Park community at the top While the foreclosure proceedings were of the fiill,John Zachman, Ayd's son-in-law, in process, Charles Kramerath died. The gave the Short Line half an acre to build a following year his wife,Maria,redeemed the railroad station.28 The station,named Ridge- property, less the right-of-way for the Kramerath's Grist Mill (originally Ayd's Mill) Chicago, Milwau'see, & St. Paul Railway as the building looked in 1959. Photograph by (Sho:t Line). Tbeir tracks were laid up the �ohn Doroughty, of the Minnesota Historical ravine, following the more gradual grade of Society.The house number was 987 Jefferson the old mill stream bed.21 Avenue. ,� � �5.�� ,� •. � `� t' �� '� t,� 'f'��'y',;`�,� }R w Y �� r�'�° � �J 4 'i � . ,`R �.... � 4 : '.:.,. � � • • ; y� 1 '� . �` �f�.�°L , lk>� '� i '��+,• �. _i'� '1 ��+� " - . �i �� .g�� .� � � ,. � �- .� �. ;�� } ��.� s . � h x �i' i�..r. � � '� �� `� � �, � ��'� � �� $ � � . ,.�_,:�� +. - . � � x , �w"p„°"�-, :.r tw'�:�'°�Y�� n. .�f..� t��. .�`.,'��srr� ..K,��- 4 � � �� . a. �, ��,�.�} p 4'�'�� . +a }� s � rt�� : fi .,. 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M� LL � �� • _ a. . x �_ , iY�C'a� �" � { .• e '^ 4. . r ;S °.':J`d�': x. �' ..y 4 �,. ,S?'. .... u ... 5 .. �u,..v.. .,.,w�+,w�,... � � , � � ` � : . . �- f7-iy�� ! . . � � wood Park, was constructed soon after- was taken from the hills; the Zachman fam- wards at the foot of Benhill Road where Vic- ily,now moved from St. Michael to St. Paul, toria Street crosses the railroad tracks.Thus walked down the railroad tracks from their it became one of the commuter stations on greenhouses on Grand Avenue to do vege- the !ine that served Macalester, Hamline, table gardening on the hillside. There was Merriam Park, and other suburban St. Paul sorrie interest in the property when Cretin communities.29 High School, faced with relocation, wanted That same year, the newly-established St. to buy land on the northeast corner of Lex- Paul Board of Park Commissioners picked ington Parkway and Jefferson Avenue.Nego- the mill site as a potential public park, and tiations, however, broke down, and they began to acquire the property.The park was bought, instead, at Randolph and Hamline to be between Milton and Oxford Streets, Avenues. In 1925 the Zachman family let � and the railroad tracks and Pleasant Avenue; their property go because of rising taxes re- 1 a location whicn included water, hills, trees, sulting from growth in the area.38 � ready access to public transportation, the Through all these years the old mill house old mill and mill house.30 Mr. Waters, an remained. In 1930, when Jefferson Avenue � English consu!tant, prepared a plan for was cut through the Ayd property, a brief beautifying the grounds, including a sug-, article was published in the local news- gestion for turning the mill into a picturesque paper.39 A few years later, another St. Paul � ruined castle.31 area paper pondered over the early history The neighborhood newspaper thought of the mill;40 and in 1963, Gareth Hiebert, little of this idea: "The ruins of an old mill "Oliver Towne" columnist for the St. Paul which ground meal and flour for the pio- Dispatch, wrote a brief description of the neers will always be interesting.On the other Ayd house, with some facts about the mill hand a ruined castle would testify that a fool itself."' For the most part, however, it was had been in control of the park long enough neglected and ignored as an important his- to do irreparable damage."32 toric site. UNFORTUNATELY for the future of the The final owners of the mill house were park, the orders for condemnation of the the Otto Leitners, another old German land were rescinded in 1894 as a result of family from the West Seventh Street area. the depression of 1893, the depreciation of In 1966, without opposition or publicity,the real estate, and the objections of neighbors 106-year-old mill house, with its eighteen- who did not w�ch to be assessed for the park. inch-thick stone walls and the adjacent barn ' Although con:relled by public opinion to Were torn down for the impending High- � abide by their decision, the Park Commis- "�'ay 35E.4z � sioners were loath to do so for, in their words, the mill site "comprised an assem- FOOtnOtes blage of admirable features which would 1. From an authoritative unpublished genealo of have made it one of the finest arks of its � P the Ayd family compiled by Mrs. Diane Schenz, C18S5 ln the eountry."33 Rte, 4, Box 2211, Lakeland, Florida 33803, and Mrs. Frances Wallraff; 955 St. Clair Avenue, Meanwhile, Adam Kidd, the owner of the Sc.Paul. mill property, had returned to his native 2. Ibrd. New York City lII 1890, where he died lri 3. Frinklyn Curtiss-Wedge,History of Wrrght County, September,and his will went into probate,3a Minnesota.Chicago:H.C.Cooper,Ir.&Co.1915. Vol. 1, p. 427. Robertson and Larpenteur family Perhaps it was in his absence that the mill connections are indicated ;n St. Pau! Dispatch, itself was demolished, since it had been de- Marcn 26, 1946,p. 4. scribed as a picturesque ruin in 188935 and 4. There is a list of the original land owners in 35th w3s riOt marked OII an 1892 atlas.38 SuCh Congress, 1 Session House oj Representatives Re- was the ignominious end of the Ayd mill, a Port No.351(Seria1965)p.431-32.For background on the sale of the Fort Snelling Reservation, see victim of swamp, railroad, and urban His•tory of Ramsey County and the City of St.Paul. development. Minneapolis: Norch Star Publishing Co. 1881, When the P.idgewood Park railroad sta- P• t95-98. 5. Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, op. cit. Vol. II, p. 719. = tion was abandoned around 1910,37the area 6. U.S. 1860 Census of Population.Ramsey County. � took on its present appearance. Some sand Reserve Township.Volume paging 309,313.�rom I 6 :- -.�.�� w�•�..r� • A : � �.'* �n,�`'.;..• .R'$R�'.� '�.i—�,�.•.r.. /L ...�r'.�...q6. ""'r„-+�.if.i�l.. ..�. .:.,z. �fJ; /Y�/ � � j �' Fj"�� t "�7��`JOf-1 +J .6l..Ca� ' . . 5 �'....�� r �'.".�,"a�� a�� . k�i...�r . �,.t°�.�.y G✓La •. . . R � �` L ,{. 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' " y�t- '� .�� :;,� : �� i � • : �`�'`.;$�FtsaTVIS � OF Y�D�S.��'f::M ��If)OJI" .h N".y,��'� S:f1.T.�8.R.83. � � :: ��3�(R c..� ,.--�� G.�, `J,ti.�..:....a T.►{J........:..� � :.r".`'�g n .. _ `1r:�:��'.",n._A►�i1.',ss.,� wu� ��.� the handwritten copy in the Manuscript Depart- The 18fi4 plat of the Ayd property,with present- ment, Minnesota Historical Society. day streets identified. Number 1 is the Miil 7. St. Anthony Hil1 Graphic, July 12, 1889, Vol. 1, House; 2,the barn, and 3, the mill itself. � No.36,p.S. 23. Book 116 of Deeds, p. 660. Registrar of Deeds, 8. L.G.Bennett,Map of Ramsey CouRty, Mirsnesota Ramsey County Courthouse. 1867 (atlas). ('hicago: Chas. Shober & Co. 1867, 24. St.Anthony Hi!!Graphic, op. crt. T28 R23. 25. St.Pau!Dispatch, December 5, 1963,p.18."Oliver 9. St. Anrhony Hill Gr�rphic, op. cit. Access to the Tovrne" column. mill through Lot 4 is mentioned as a condition of 26. St. Paul Pioneer Press, Dec.30, 1886,p.5. the mitl's sale ir.Rook EE of Deeds, p.225,in the 2� ��Ridgewood Park Addition." Registrar of Deeds, Registrar of Deeds, Ramsey County Courthouse. Ramsey County Courthouse.Town Plats, Book 8, 10. L. G. Bennett, op. cit., lists Kuhn as the owner. No. 19. 11. "Subdivisior.of�Ayd's Farm, 100 Acres NW 1/4 of 2g, Copy of deed in possession of Arnold Zachman, Section 11,T7�..23,"plat in the Registrar of Deeds, 1262 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, grandson of John Ramsey Counrv Courthouse.Town Plats,Book H, Zachman, Ayd's son-in-law. Plat 3. 29. R.L.Polk&Co.St. Paul City Directory, 1891-92. 12. Ayd genealogy(see footnote 1). plso in Donnelley's Atlas of the City of St. Paul, 13. Book JJ of Deeds,p.357.Registrar of Deeds,Ram- Minnesora. St. Paul: Reuben H. Donnelley, 1892. sey County Courthouse. Vol. II,p. 10. 14. Information tirom Henry L. Ayd, 1866 Wellesley 3p_ ��Riclgewood Park." Registrar of Deeds, Ramsey Avenue,St.Paul,who was born in the apartments County Courthouse, Park Plats, Book 1, No. 11. above the Ayd Hall. Platted July 12,1889, 19&44/100 acres. 15. U.S. 1870 Census of Population.Ramsey County. 31. St.Paul Pioneer Press,July 25, 1889,p.S. Reserve Township. Volume paging 885. From the 32. St. Anthony Hill Graphic, July 26, 1889 (Vol. 1, handwritten copy in the Manuscript Department, No.38) p.4. Minnesota Historical Society. 33. Board of Park Commissioners of the City of - 16. Book W of Mortgages, p. 62, 221. Registrar of St.Paul.Fourth Annua!Report for the year ending Deeds,Ramsey County Courthouse. Mar. 1, A.D. 1895. p. 6-7. 17. St.Anthony Hi/1 Graphic, op. cit. St.Paul Depart- 34. Book 30,Misc.p.369 relating to the last will and t�ient of Public Works,Sewer Engineer,has records testament of Adam C. Kidd. Registrar of Deeds, � on these springs. Ramsey County Courthouse. 18. St. Paul.Dispatch, February 9, 1971. Second sec- 35. St. Anthony Hi!! Graphic, July 12, 1889, op. crt. tion,p. 1. 36. Donne!!ey's Atlas, op. cit. 19. Conversation with Paul Bergman, District 9, Min- 37. R. L. Polk & Co. St. Paut.City Drrectory, 1910. nesota Highway Department,an engineer for con- 38. Arnold Zachman (see footnote 28). struction of Highway 35E. 39. St.Paul Pioneer Press, Apri1 7, 1930,p. 12. 20. Book 32 of Mcrtgages,p.490.Notice of foreclosure 40. S[. Pau!Shopper, Oct. 29, 1942, p. 2. sale published ir_St. Pau/Daily Globe, July 20,29, 41. St.Pau!Dispatch,DECember 5, 1963,p.18."Oliver August 3,10, 1^,,24,31,1878. Towne"column. 21. Book 92 of D�;:ds,p.31.Registrar of Deeds,Ram- 42. Mrs.Otto I.eitner,1068 Pleasant Avenue,St.Paul, sey County Ccu:thouse. supplied recent information about the house and 22. 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