and everybody that i've talked to was a wealth of information about the city and then i gathered some pictures and photographs created a slide show and i still got the slide show and i even got a projector i think will work this thousand nine hundred i don't know even though the reason why they did it but they picked it up in the winter and moved it to gladstone so they moved it away from the saloon and so what they do is put it by three other saloons some a there wasn't e go to the next slide please there we go ok i threw in this picture because it's a good example of the housing that was scattered around the area in where maple it is today the first thing that happened was the farmers came out there and they cleared the land cut down most of the trees and and some of them had were little more well to do it and others a photographer would around the new canada township is what the area was called and stack that's the st paul waterworks and the sample waterworks is still in the same location today in the early eighteen eighty s they were they relocated out outside the st paul city limits and they're using the water through the chain to lakes and glen probably knows more and i do all this works but the water for st paul at one time was it was fed through fail and and and the waterworks the you know was part of the canal system that they drew the water from the better lakes up and ramsey county and fed the water supply for st paul and you know it and these and this and hence the reason why glance at it was created because of the two the two train lines came together there so because of that that's where the town grew up and that's where it was created and they had to depots so we had to depots and gladstone rights and in the in the aspect of efficiency they decided to merge the two depots together into one makes sense right now they were doing that that's why i threw this one in here is that they had a temporary boxcar deep hole for a while while they were moving the other depot and then at the top there is the plow works is that's one of the manufacturing businesses in gladstone we'll talk a little bit more about that too right here is the only major train accident they ever had in gladstone you think with two train tracks that come together that's asking for trouble right actually they had a very safe system set up well to the point where he always had a person there all the time and they had these gates that would be down you know for with you know you have the right away going one way they have the gates going one way and then you switch and go this way and the trains can go in or solve so you never had a train collision come together at that intersection however about a half a mile away from that is a kind of a nasty curve that still there today if you ever go on the gateway trail by were  member of the tourist cabins were just across the street from the tourist cabins is a pretty big curve now and that curve there was two trains there are on the same track unfortunately in one thousand nine hundred seven i believe  there was a sunni line a soup or train and a northern pacific freight train that were on a collision course now they telegraphed one of them that said get over on a siding let the other one pass while somehow they didn't get the signals and they met head on and the engines went straight up in the air one was a diesel one was a steam and there was then the freight train calling beet pulp and the b pole was everywhere and one of the people died that was one of the engineers on the train none of the passengers died on the other train and this little vehicle right here is the first gladstone fire truck and so they raced to the scene and he could see they must they did a lot of good t it was much to do by the time they got there so i next say let's see what the next one is some this is the second deep hole that was on the sewer line which was the west the east tracks and this was the section house that was there to house the section foreman and also to rent out to people on the railroad they had some some place they could stay calm like a little hotel and the section house is one of the few buildings from the gladstone days that still exist today they picked it up and moved it to barkley in frost and if you want to see where that is what you look for is there's two chimneys on the on the house so that's where you could tell was the old section house so it pretty much looks the same of the same as they did back it say gloucester not gladstone as you might guess why why would they have changed the name some people probably your know the answer to that but the reason is they used to be gladstone and this train track right here was the wisconsin central and soul what would happen is things would get shipped to the wrong gladstone so people in the in these days used to send their laundry to st paul to get it cleaned and gladstone so they put it on the train to send it the same probably get clean and wind up in michigan so the railroad said well ok we'll change that we want change the name gladstone michigan will change the name of gladstone minnesota so the m i c h doesn't look like m i n n so they just picked the name what kind of sounds like stone gladstone was named after the british statesman ok he's british gloucester but they didn't quite call it gloucester they just kind of made it a little bit different spelling with geo ju l o s t e r so with the you in there and the townsfolk at gladstone actually didn't like it too much so they always called the area gladstone even though the railroad from then on out call that gloucester so that's why on the depot it says gloucester this was a picture that was taken during world war one and this was taken to the government told me this and i might not hopefully get it right the government took over the railroad  lines and they want to be sure they've they took records of all the property of the railroad which is great to put on a camera on a train in about every half a mile quarter mile they took a picture from here all the way up to dilute  wonderful pictures of the train lines from back then all right next slide let's see what the next one this is a color picture in the one nine hundred fifty s of the depot still in action and then this is the this is the  gates this is the gladstone shops of the say polo dilute railroad now how gladstone got created there was a fellow by the name of william dawson and him and his wife were land speculators this is  this appeared in northwest magazine this was the magazine and said you know glad so it's going to rival st paul someday you know and i don't think it quite happen so as soon as the shops citizens say paul do with rare o shops built their shops there in about ten years they are bought by the northern pacific and the northern pacific did everything they can to get rid of the shops because gladstone was all uphill from st paul got rid of the trestle but you can imagine how much money it took it took to get to gladstone all the time to go uphill ok and then so all the shops were kind of they were there for about twenty of gladstone they brought that blackened hole cover train back to gladstone to get it serviced and i think they did repaired and we did go back in service so so that was one of the major industries that see the next  here's what they look like in the one nine hundred sixty s interesting thing about the shops was even though the northern pacific wanted to get rid of them it was too expensive to demolish them so what they did was they cited ninety nine year lease with a company back when they were getting rid of it it was a ninety year ninety try think when the years were but anyway it was it was like a ninety year lease or so and it went from a changing of hands like the american dump truck car company to the guthrie company to whirlpool and in the end whirlpool in the shops and as the agreement in one nine hundred seventy nine the lease ran out and they dismantled the shops and i remember this as a kid driving by with my dad driving by and all the people picking through the bricks because it was basically knocked over all the buildings the nearby pick pick the bricks up there so where this is today is now the gladstone savannah and the the thing left of the shops is the foundation of the round house and they're pretty massive about four feet thick and those poured concrete blocks are still in there and buried underground so something in the city might create a little park there and you can build see those again this is frisbee  works was william dawson's a business it was an interesting business in it was one of those businesses where it was kind of a plow work for hire a lot of companies have their products made here at the plow works and when i say power x the i think back in those days everybody used everything was pulled by horses so anything that a horse would paul would have been made there like grange drills they had certain patents that only this plow company could make it was a pirate gang plow very specialized stuff and then they also made a bobsleds and all kinds of implements and such so this where this was located if you look if you if you know the gateway trail and where the bruce vento trail intersect it would be the northeast corner of that it's all houses today there's still a few bricks left from it but that's about it things are going actually pretty good for gladstone the eight hundred ninety s they had two major businesses there is a hotel there is of course a couple saloons you know of course there is a brothel and other things that any kind of manufacturing town would have a general stores and such so what was going on here is the plaza works expanded a bit and they and they built some more things and things are going pretty good two ish is that right good somebody somebody that you're got the book it's in the book good all right and you have a memory of what happened in november eighty ninety two right before christmas they had just switched production to bobsleds of bobsled so this is a back before cars of course everybody needed a bobsled if you want to go anywhere in the winter you did not take away again you took a bobsled so if you look up old records back in those days they always remark how good the dynamo they're going to install for electricity and they had you know all their merchandise ray to go they had the cars lined up there on the on the on the spurs and then the middle of night there was a fire that started the basement of  soon as that happened you know they had a limited fire department they are not like they do now but they basically had a bucket brigade of workers and soon the water they had on site ran out and the fire horizon now that the now the station agent here at the depot was good a little worried as you might imagine so he telegraphed for help to st paul to try to bring some help out there because he thought the entire town was going to go down you know the whole entire town to burn so st paul sent out a special engine out of their closest fire station they had i think on earl street and even but by the time they got there there was not much they could do there was pretty much ashes by the time they got there now they had a fire proof safe that did survive the fire so there their patterns the the blueprints of other plows did survive the fire and they were about half covered by insurance so they were able to rebuild it i don't buy it got another picture of it but see what the guy sh the product of what they build the next one yeah so they were able to rebuild and they one of their clients was the same poplog company and this is known as bragging rights the largest far away casting made west of chicago so this thing is about seven feet tall and the diameter syrup about thirty inches wide and there's about seven of these and they're all buried in st paul somewhere today i'm sure they're still there so all four thousand pounds was the biggest one so they they handled some pretty not the fire didn't do it again but basically what happened was william dawson was the president of the bank of st paul and the bank a saint paul folded and he ran out of money and thus the he lost know they seem to do pretty good for a while but what happened to poor has he suffered a stroke at the state fair the state fair back then was the place you had your implements me nowadays you barely tell were you know machinery hill was right in this day in their ads that they put in the magazine they'd say will be will be at the minnesota state fair in sections eleven and fourteen in this building so how else would you see him so that's where they went unfortunately mr pour your head and stroke and he was unable to recover so that was the end of poor and pretty much the end of the plow works to soul gladstone it's got two blows already against it the shops were gradually closing and now the plowers was closed but there was another business in gladstone there was one more next slide and this one still there today some people might recognize this picture if you ever drove drove on wiper avenue in frost this is the poor farm so the poor farm they were very smart they were the first ones to gladstone they got the highest land so they picked the highest land and why did they wind up in gladstone you might might wonder and the reason is they got kicked out of the fairgrounds they used to be at where the state fairgrounds was they said no we need this land for the fairgrounds go way out there in the middle of nowhere in gladstone and that's what they did so they they moved their farm they put it out there and the farm was to be self sufficient and for the poppers that live there they were they each got a piece of land they could fly arm and they could choose what they want to farm on and see if you can guess what they farmed on their plot of land but nobody said it tobacco of course so they also were expected to work on the farm get in there you just couldn't show up there in the door and be admitted he had to prove you're a resident of ramsey county and this is one of the better run poor farms in the state it was also one of the largest ones to now this building was a superintendent selves and unfortunately for the poor farm the superintendents were involved some shady business back in the thirty's and forty's and kind of began to dismantle the the farming part of it one of the things they had there was a herd of  purebred cattle that was very prized and very very expensive and some of those would disappear and they had some of the road projects that were quite on the up and up anyway that superintendent's house is still there and i think i've got a slight later on where that yesterday it hasn't changed much at all this is the course the barn at the poor farm it's one of the really the only real part of the of the poor farm area that hasn't changed much this is built in  eighteen it was very expensive back when they did it and they hired a prominent architects to do it but they also made it to last and it didn't last it was a very sturdy barn and held quite a few quite a few cattle in there  of course you have the hayloft hauling the hay up there and and this is the only building in maple that's on the national register is stored places so all made it a good effort to try to preserve it and recently the county did replace the farm self sufficient where they didn't have to they didn't have to have your residence leave the site or anything like that for anything so they had you know everything there they had the barber shop and of course you can't see it but in the corner there's a of course for the barber shop ok next picture i'm sure this one's pretty dark too this is the this they call them inmates back then they don't say that anymore but they were playing cards in the basement course they made crafts and things like that to now one thing that was different in the old days i'm talking the twenty's and teens is that most people are a bit here didn't stay there very long just for a couple of weeks and then they would leave in the maybe they come back so one of the defining moments of the day there was bringing the dinner gong they call that it was a big bell and they bring the gong in and people come from wherever they are in the fields or work in the fields they come up there for fo d ok it's show the next one and this is the the barn as a looks today basically what is what happened over time with the poor farm is that social security came in and  know the kind of the kind of people that were there were more they are older and more feeble and they were they couldn't work the farm anymore so eventually they began to sell off the cattle they had they closed the farm down the the they kind of built their own shanties and then if the weather in the winter especially they came in there you know and sometimes i think people made him go in there you know like the relatives you know you gotta go do something  know i don't know if that happened a lot it almost seemed like you had to have somebody buy it for you to get in there you know and then you had to have somebody sign to get you in there so maybe they had some to do with that there's there's a lot history there that could be explored the poor farm  where it was a wakefield and there was prosperity road and in those days press parity wrote ended right there at the poor farm so the ripley's believe or not says they ought to get to the poor farm we had to go to the end of prosperity road know where the the liquor store is the bakery that's where that's what was there before it and so in one nine hundred two this was a general or pretty much anything you can get there and there's also a post office in there too and this is the mail truck in the front there i have a little bit more in the post office right there what's interesting about the post office back then was yes there was a post office in maplewood there isn't one now of course back then there was this was  way and he had a long route to do he had to do all the way from basically you know the poor far up to buck de and he went all the way down to a d and even over  to i think at one time the route went all the way to right street and then as last part of his route was coming down highway sixty one and by then it was getting pretty late in the day by the time is coming down highway sixty one going towards frost avenue and  hundred eighty s they just did one little school they wanted the best school they could build and for a rural area with dirt roads to have a school like this was pretty amazing for them to pull it off and it was eleven thousand for this in their dollars which would be a lot more today they bit off more than they could chew or they could only afford two teachers had a four room school the only two teachers they paid they had a male and a female teacher they paid the male teacher fifty dollars the female teacher got thirty so you don't feel bad for the teachers i think the janitor only got a couple bucks sold by nineteen zero six that expand a little bit here is the class f and fortunately it didn't as far as i could tell that was from standard conveyor but it's a dead ringer for it if you want to see what the slide looked like from this go to go to the park at silver lake it and you get a good view exactly how that fire escape slide  so that was the one thing the kids really like to do there ok next slide show your sis an interior shot of the school showing the students that are in there you know school hasn't changed much well ok maybe it's here's arnold nelson it was a person in charge of charge of the parade and in charge of the festivities back then so we made the paper was a big deal jubilees were a big deal back in those days next picture ok this this k next picture now is they may remember linking us landing the way back before he had the swimming beach while they still had the swing beach back then that people were allowed to swim in other places on phailin i know there's a certain spot i like t swim and failing that the police would take me out of all the time this is at the end of larpent or right at the lake and this is before they had the big sewers put in there go to wake although it was probably a little nicer back then but this is one of the favorite swimming gladstone became started gold fish started to fade away a bit the industry faded away something else took center stage and that was the truck farming this is a peter cook on his farm this is right on highway sixty one where the maple leaf drive and used to be where the northern air is so this is where as far was and i was a good place to have a farm because you had pretty good land and also you had good  connections to the farmer's market so you were too far away so it was an easy way to get right to the farmers market so truck farming became the main business if you will of gladstone ok next one and i threw this in there always like these old school pictures you know sometimes they smile sometimes they don't ok next now a picture of the of the same school who girton theirs for the last names on their they decided to form their own fires fire department so nine hundred forty three they knocked on doors they got donations and and they were able to this is their first truck you can see on the edge there and then they got a one of our gatherings but a lot of hard work went into to create these fire stations and their first payment the volunteers got per call was fifty cents and if you did not show up to meet you got charged a quarter though naturally they showed up to the meetings and eventually they rose to a dollar that you could get per call per fire call and even in one nine hundred fifty seven when the city was created majority fires in gladstone were grass fires i think there was twenty four grass fires and about fourteen home fires and that made about nine vehicle fires and only about six first aid calls and i don't much about fire calls these days but when the number of ambulances i see i think the the first is when they start expanding the fire station i used to say we could go see this today well now that's gone too so this is now part of the parking lot of the town all that there are days anybody could buy by the way that old town halls for sale the the siren out there you have to go off at six o'clock and every time we had visitors at our house and that would go off they just freak out think it was the tornadoes or something no this is a went off at six o'clock now the siren before they had th swell when they had the siren how they got calls there was the pfeiffer grocery store which was across the street would get the fire call they'd walk across the street turn on the siren and then they'd have a piece of paper in it and then when the first firefighters show up they have the piece of paper to him that's where the fire would be so that's the system they had for fired calls at one time was the middle of the night she had the piece of paper hand wind blew it out of her hand and and the fire guy on d house and also killer grocery would do it too so over time it got you know they had they had it every time they got another vehicle they got another bay added and so that i know that was always the restriction on how big of a vehicle they could get could they fit it into the fire station now in order to pay for that fire station they sold people blocks they put their name on a block for five dollars and they were in there too until it tore down we saved some of them when they tore down the snorkel the bigger the bigger engine in there so there is you can see the siren up there now i asked them what happened when they sired why they'd stop it one time just broke and they never fixed it built the only one that still uses the siren from this volunteer days a little canada still uses theirs i can still hear theirs at six o'clock so they had their siren still the same kind of system little canada developed right after gladstone same kind of thing all volunteer door to door raising money all right let's see what the next one is as a oh great i was wondering where this one was yes all right tom joyce pure oil station this was on the corner of in delish and frost roughly where the moose lodge is today or at least their parking lot this is one hundred twenty six and this is a good picture because it shows how wide open the area was and you could see forever there was no trees anywhere i think in the distant back or you could see the color golf course building that's what that is the clubhouse and what i like about this picture is there is only one outhouse for women so are the men go i don't know they don't have an outhouse course on the little bitty creek that separates the two lakes this is just north of the creek the coleman still in the property today this was a major tourist attraction back in the early eighteen hundreds from people coming out from st paul  place to get away and the wives did not like the husbands to frequent the place because a lot of the times the ledger would say so and so in concert but still had a bit of a reputation now ninety july thirteenth it's one of those cases where with tourney to history call a cycle back then too timing is everything with turn a dose if they hit at night if they hit on a weekend it's always the worst time for turning into a hit because why people aren't whole they're out doing things they're sleeping they're not paying attention that's what happened here a hit on a sunday everybody had their fancy late cottages out there at jarvis so they're well to do  people in st paul went to jarvis that day for the weekend just like you booked your cabin now and that's a pretty big cabbages there and they weren't like little shy little little cabins either so here is the before and after picture that's the before and then it's the after the psych loan so really level most of what was on lake charges then throngs of people came out from st paul to help and to look for souvenirs of course so that was a problem with police control even back then you still had a lot issues so there's no trace of this tornado hitting jarvis today you would not you couldn't tell where it hit at all on the lake but ever since then the people that lived there for at least two generations after that when ever there was attorney no they were very skittish about  it that peter cook picture i showed him plowing and i was sixty one he made all the kids get into the cellar every time he thought there was bad weather coming because he remembered that turn it on how bad it was right next like this yes there was fatalities i think six people died they did not include servants though in the death toll so just this the important people were included say i can guess what this is a killer golf course trees were not a hazard this is well when the when they had the holes i want to see the same poll that was there at a time and then of course this is the nineteenth hole right there that's goldens that's where he used to be back then and highway sixty one is right here and these are actually people's homes in front and they they obviously aren't there anymore and up here you can see the gloucester shops in the background here so it is wide open and there is failing lake right there so golden that location and they moved it down the road so where it is today i think it might have burned again since a couple times so this is still there of course looks just like they had there is talk of maybe tearing it down to building a new i ninety four was highway twelve but this was one of the main truck stops before he got to the big city i have to throw in some self leg stuff and they're all right i think we get a little more modern here here's the demo and not the demise but what happened to the town hall now it's kind of confusing what happens to it you could see it's being elevated there when this when the the new cana township didn't need the town hall anymore in the one nine hundred fifty s of course after world war two people began to move to new canada township got more and more populated then they they outgrew the town hall so basically they were having meetings in the gladstone school so they were going to get rid of the town hall and only one person had interest in buying it so he bought it for five hundred eighty dollars and moved it across the street to start a sunday school in it and if that fella had not bought the town hall it would have demolished been maje live another sixty years after the guy bought all so for five hundred dollars he picked it up moved it across the street and it became the gladstone baptist church then it became gladstone catering then it was a furniture store and now it's vacant and doesn't look good it so it's interesting that that's for sale on one side of the street the old city hall is on the other side of the street for sale so next you could buy half a gladstone right now if you wanted to right  odd shape to it why is there that long skinny south leg well there was another township to our south called mclean township and as st paul grew it kept an exciting parts of mclean township till all that was left was a one mile strip between mckni century and so all that was in a big enough strip of land to run a township government so that absorbed into new canada township and eventually came down to one nine hundred fifty seven or the city's st paul little part there was some company there they were interested in and then the rest of the talents of say wait a second next three m you know what are we going to have for tech space will be devastated so in a rush basically  the township decided to incorporate and in when they did they were on more equal footing with st paul and eventually they're able to get hooked up the city sewer water and such like that and of course  by the one nine hundred eighty s course had to move out of that to its next picture now there's the dedication one thousand nine hundred sixty five k i was off by a year or so but we did rescue the time capsule that was in this there was a time capsule buried or not buried but who put in the cornerstone when they built it so we're able to say that in all the documents are there very interesting so we'll keep that at the new city hall our next picture council back in those days john revo missing his name right grave you ok lewis gilbert so my record byron home was the mayor back then all that's a that's a good question to oh ok the question was what was the population of gladstone because it was never incorporated as a village it's hard to get a good track of the it was never never  factories they did build fifty homes for people there in gladstone and then you know people also you know stayed in the boarding houses in town but there was no street car service out to gladstone that was one of the biggest problems as soon as everything closed down in the teens and early twenty's a lot of people burned their homes for insurance so popular saying was you're moving when's the fire so that way in the back of the corner apartment for forty years and when the house blew up because of a gas leak she had like forty thousand dollars in their house and the police are picking up the money flying in the wind after it was in the eighty's that blew up in the well there was some debate when they came time to make a city the city a little canada broke away in one nine hundred fifty three so i kind of kept the name of the township little canada new canada nobody really what was the what was the issue i got to remember with three m i was in the early days of three m being there and you got to pay your what assessment is of water no water and sewer assessment and three am was always late and so they always paid the last second so one time they missed the date deadline so the city the village back then sent him a fee so they showed up the next meeting with about six attorneys so it was just there and it's still the in the same place basically has been for you know since eight hundred eighty s you know richards is still there and it's amazing and i'm glad that it's there because i think a lot of people rely on richard's especially on thanksgiving  see an empty parking lot of richards on thanksgiving because everybody needs gams or something way in the back like i think i was about nine hundred fifty it was built in stages you know they built one part of the school once and then they built the second half is just like the time of any schools you know that there's a huge population growth lots of kids got to build a lot of schools then they all go away and then they close the schools so you know if the gladstone went through the same thing you know in the one thousand nine hundred fifty s they were bursting out of the seams and the old four room schoolhouse contact us and we will definitely archive it or if you go ok i was going to say you must be connected glad some motors and one thing as the about glass so they were busing kids in the thirty's right i mean there was bus service in the thirty's for kids in gladstone now i don't know it was hansen's i always remember a story about the folks in the poor farm coming down to the store you know they came down to the store and for beer of course and one knew all jed carried a suitcase right and the other guys to give them money to buy the beer and then he got to get one drink one himself right before he walked up the hill so he came down suitcase to get the four beers and put them in the suitcase and walked back up the grocery when they got electricity they they when they got it installed for their coolers they had a meter on the side they had to put a quarter in all the time that's how they got their electricity  had electricity like that today with a meter to put a quarter in every or whatever money well thank you everybody for coming out