This map is the original town site map of Minneapolis, platted for John H. Stevens and Franklin Steele by Charles W. Christmas, the first surveyor of Hennepin County. Christmas’s decision to lay the streets out running roughly parallel to the river…
The 1918 flu pandemic, commonly referred to as the Spanish flu, spread over the entire world. Estimates of death range from 20 to 100 million people. In Minnesota 33,204 people died of all causes. That number of deaths was not seen again until…