Music From the Porch Wednesday August 18th!

Wednesday, August 18th at 7pm join us for our first Music From the Porch concert   of the summer – its FREE!. The featured band is Plumb Creek. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket and come enjoy great music at the historic Bartholomew House, 69th and Lyndale, in Richfield. Questions? – call 612-798-6140. .

Vintage Base Ball and Ice Cream Social August 14th

Two great pleasures of summer – baseballand ice cream – will come together on August 14, 2010 at the Richfield Historical Society.  On that Saturday the public can cheer on the Quicksteps, Minnesota’s premier vintage base ball team as they face the Loyal Opposition Nine team, during their 12th annual game at the Richfield Historical [...]

Exhibit:Richfield’s Greatest Generation: Joining Together To Shape a Suburb

Now on view through September 2010 at the Richfield History Center. The Great Depression, World War II, and the prosperity of the 1950s’ these are the events that defined America’s Greatest Generation. Through hard work and personal sacrifice the men and women of the Greatest Generation brought the country through difficult times and built it [...]

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Second Annual Music From the Porch Series

Bring your lawn chair and picnic basket and come enjoy  a live music performance from the porch of the Bartholomew House. The third Wednesday of June, July and August. FREE!

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New Book on the History of Minneapolis’ South Suburbs

Suburban Dawn traces the interlocking stories of Bloomington, Richfield and Edina, whose pasts and presents have much in common. When Minnesota organized in 1858, Bloomington and Richfield bordered each other. Those living in west Richfield formed their own township called Edina in 1888. The book’s unusual format features 37 carefully documented narratives that illustrate how [...]

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Richfield is a small first ring suburb located just south of Minneapolis. A quiet little suburban bedroom community, populated by returning World War II veterans in the late 1940s and 1950s, Richfield was once one of the earliest settled farming communities in the territory of Minnesota in the 1850s.

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