Spring 2011 NBAHS Newsletter - New Brighton Area Historical Society

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NEWSLETTER
Spring 2011
Volume XXX, No. 1
newbrightonhistory.com
NBAHS 31st Annual Meeting
To Be Held April 28
The New Brighton Area Historical Society’s
(NBAHS) Thirty-First Annual Meeting will
be held Thursday, April 28, at 7:00 PM at
the Family Service Center.
The program for the evening will be the
recognition of New Brighton area pioneer
families, those families who had settled in the
area on or before 1910.
Those families will be recognized with a
framed pioneer certificate that evening. A
sample pioneer registration form for those
families qualifying is included for you to print
out and send to the address below.
Looking through the 1905 census records, we
find mention of the following familiar local
family names and we urge their attendance
at this event: Bona, Beisswenger, Bourdeaux,
Sztuk, DeMars, Blanski, Treat, Dalzen,
Olchefske, Dombeck, Hudoba, McCallum,
Schmalzbauer, Devine, Nixon, Foss,
Richardson, Dolphy, Podlasek, Zellie,
Bochenski.
We have heard from the following families
and will present certificates to their
representatives: Espenett, Searles, Perron,
Hanlon, Perry and Hipp. Please join us!
Refreshments will be served.
Royalty and Over 80s Guests at 2010 Event
Participants at Over 80s Dinner, October, 2010.
Volunteers Needed For Depot
If you can help out at the NBAHS Depot Museum
this summer for a three-hour stint, Saturdays or
Sundays, please contact Peg at 651-633-4070.
New Brighton Area Historical Society, PO 120624, New Brighton, MN 55112
www.newbrightonhistory.com
NEW BRIGHTON AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY!
New Brighton Area
Historical Society 2011
Calendar of Events
April 28: NBAHS Annual Meeting
Family Service Center, 7:00 PM
May 21: Spring Clean-up,
History Center, 9AM - 12 PM
June 4: Rhubarb Picking
Contact Jerry @ 763-784-8520 to help
June 5: Rhubarb Fest
History Center, 1:00 - 4:00 PM
June 5: New Brighton History Center
Opens for the Season
1:00 - 4:00 PM, Saturdays & Sundays
August 13, 14: New Brighton Stockyard Days
History Center open extended hours:
Saturday: noon - 8PM; Sunday: 10AM - 4PM
September 25: Depot Closes for Season
October 10: “Over 80s” Harvest Dinner
2:00 PM
The following offices for the New
Brighton Area Historical Society,
2011-2012, will be voted on at the
April 28 Annual Meeting: President,
Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer,
and one director. The slate will be
presented that evening.
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Members: Please look over NBAHS dates to the left. On May 21,
we are doing a major cleanup in the basement of the history
center. We will be having a dumpster delivered and are looking
for helpers to assist with this cleanup of materials that are no
longer needed by the Society. This includes old lumber, a former
stand from previous Stockyard Days, shelving and display
materials. We need your help with this huge undertaking.
Also note the date for our first event, the Rhubarb Fest, on June 5.
Posters will be posted at various locations announcing this event.
NBAHS GENEALOGY SUBGROUP FORMED
To our readers: We ran this article in fall 2010 and are
running it again so you will fully informed of this new NBAHS
subcommittee.
NBAHS board member Bill DeCoursey has formed a genealogy
subgroup for the Society. This group will be composed of
NBAHS members interested in the subject of family history and
genealogy.
Their task will be to create a genealogical GEDCOM database
of pioneers of the New Brighton area and their descendants and
to disseminate this information. DeCoursey has a large personal
genealogical reference library that will be accessible to the
subgroup.
Another of the tasks of the group will be to recognize area
residents who can provide proof of their descent from a resident
of New Brighton on or before 1910. A Pioneer Certificate will
be given to those and they will be recognized and honored at the
next annual meeting on April 28, 2011.
DeCoursey has printed out all pages of the federal and state
census records for the area of Mounds View Township and
Ramsey County for the 80-year period from 1850 through 1930.
This information is available to peruse at the depot museum. He
has also made up genealogy forms for you to start your own
personal genealogy, which are also available at the museum.
DeCoursey is asking those who are interested in being a part of
this group to contact him either by email or phone
([email protected] or 651-633-5759).
New Brighton Area Historical Society, PO 120624, New Brighton, MN 55112
www.newbrightonhistory.com
NEW BRIGHTON AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY!
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Photo of fire at Kunz Oil
bulk plant, for which
Herman Behrens was the
manager/agent. Submitted
by Sara Hanson
Morawski, who lived
across the street from
Setchell-Carlson as a
child. Circa late 40s-early
50s.
NBAHS SPACE NEEDED
The New Brighton Area
Historical Society is working with
the City of New Brighton and the
new Ramsey County Library which
will soon be in the existing Family
Service Center.
The Society is looking for space
for a room that can be used by the
historical society for local history
and genealogy research. In addition,
the Society has a great number of
research books that cannot be
adequately displayed or used at the
New Brighton History Center
facility.
Much of our paper memorabilia
is now stored in the basement of the
history center, which is not a good
storage area due to mold issues. The
Society needs space to store and
make accessible to the public:
• Three standard file cabinets filled
with historical society documents
• Hundreds of historical books
• Genealogy research information
with a microfilm reader and
Minnesota and federal census
records, given to the Society by the
Mounds View School District when
their district media storage was
discontinued
• Three large flat files containing
large maps and documents
• Paper memorabilia from the Kermit
Hedman Foundation donation in
1993
• Collections of early resident oral
histories on cassette tapes that
could be transcribed at this
location.
The Society would also be
interested in preparing historical
exhibits for the new library.
The Society would have this
room open with the above
collections available to the public to
use during designated hours for
those who wish to do research.
New Brighton Area Historical Society, PO 120624, New Brighton, MN 55112
The first church in New Brighton
was the First Congregational
Church, incorporated September 4,
1890, and built in 1892 at a cost of
$1500. It was located on the west side
of 5th Avenue and 6th Street, north of
the first New Brighton Elementary
School. It moved to its new facility on
Long Lake Road in 1958. After
serving other purposes than a church,
the building was razed in 2001.
www.newbrightonhistory.com
NEW BRIGHTON AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY!
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Pioneer Family
The New Brighton Area Historical Society
recognizes the following family who has proven that
they are descendants of a resident of the
New Brighton area at or before 1910.
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_______________________
Peg Joyce, President
New Brighton Area Historical Society
New Brighton Area Historical Society, PO Box 120624, New Brighton, MN 55112 www.newbrightonhistory.com
NEW BRIGHTON AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY!
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RESIDENT FAMILY REGISTRATION
EARLY NEW BRIGHTON AREA
The New Brighton Area Historical Society will recognize the following family
as a resident of the early New Brighton area, prior to or at 1910, and also recognizes their descendants as
shown:
Early Resident Family
Name & Age in 1910: ________________________________________________
Address/Location: ___________________________________________________
Worked at or for: ____________________________________________________
Descendant(s)
Name
Phone
Address
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Mail this form to: New Brighton Area Historical Society, address below.
Note: Certificate will be mailed to first descendant listed if not at Annual Meeting on April 28, 2011.
New Brighton Area Historical Society, PO Box 120624, New Brighton, MN 55112 www.newbrightonhistory.com