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The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. There are 18 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. A supplementary list includes one additional site that was formerly listed on the National Register.
Located in downtown Anoka, surrounded by historic buildings and riverways, the History Center features a 3,000-square-foot exhibit gallery that tells the stories of the 21 communities that make up Anoka County. Previously located in Colonial Hall they moved to their current location, the old city library building in the city of Anoka 20 years ago.
The Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church is a historic property in Anoka County, Minnesota. It is located at 2332 Swedish Drive in Ham Lake, Minnesota. The Late Victorian style church was built in 1872 to the design of architect Per August Gustafson. The church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In the 1980s, the Anoka County Historical Society's offices and library were housed in Colonial Hall. [3] As of July 2019, Anoka Lodge No. 30 was still meeting in the Lodge hall twice per month, along with Anoka-Shekinah Royal Arch Chapter #104, Zabud Cryptic Council #10, Order of the Eastern Star Marthas Chapter, Job's Daughters Bethel 48, and ...
The refuge was named after Carlos Avery (1868-1930), executive agent of the Minnesota Game and Fish Commission from 1907 to 1909 and 1915 to 1923. It was established with 8,000 acres (3,200 ha) obtained from the Crex Carpet Company.
Many other buildings, including the Stage Coach Barn [6] and the first post office in Anoka County, continued to be added. John C. Bowers was the first postmaster, a position he held for twenty-five years. There were unsuccessful attempts to make it the territorial capital.
Anoka residents and visitors held up their plastic cups of beer Wednesday as a toast to Minnesota's first-ever "social district," where adults can take their alcoholic drinks out onto certain ...
The first generation of Ticknors was among the original settler-colonists of Anoka who arrived and built the river town in the mid-19th century. The family opened a dry goods store in 1855 before converting it into a cigar-manufacturing business in 1860. Building upon this success, Heman Ticknor expanded the businesses to include a drug store ...