Where is swede hollow

About Swede Hollow Park The location of a bustling immigrant community up until the late s, Swede Hollow Park is enjoyed by many residents looking for a green escape in an urban setting. Project Updates Tree Trust is planning to add and install a railing system to the timber staircase late or summer of More information to come.

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They were followed by Italian and Mexican immigrants, among others, in the s and s respectively. Swede Hollow by George Earl Resler, circa Image courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. The community is infamous for being deemed a health hazard and burned to the ground in by the St.

Paul Fire Department. Even at that time, the residents had no city water or sewer 2. One of the more famous images of Swede Hollow is that of a burning home; it speaks powerfully to the magnitude of destruction and loss the community and its inhabitants endured.

Today, many of those people who grew up in the Hollow, or who had family who lived there, remember the fire, but they also remember something more. They tell stories of a difficult life and the struggle to move out of the Hollow. They tell of Swede Hollow as its own little world, something never quite a part of the larger city.

They tell stories of comradery. This is the essence of Swede Hollow as it is remembered today. The etching, dating to , is currently part of the collections at the Minnesota Historical Society.

I came across this photo while conducting background research on Swede Hollow in preparation for an archaeological excavation. Many of the black and white photographs, such as the image of the Hollow from the s, show either no people, or one or two individuals standing stiffly side-by-side.