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Newsletter #92 April. 199^Hage 11 <br />Archives Comer by Jim Roehl <br />Notes from the Avery Stubbs Archives Memorial Library <br />May 11 is Minnesou Day! <br />120 Years ago... April 29,1873 • Milo Stubbs wrote of being impressed w ith drumming grouse at <br />Stubbs Bay. Mrs. Gertrude Hall recalls her father. Charles Grave, in the 1870's shix>ting <br />partridge that hid in the grain fields at Stubbs Bay. <br />100 Years ago 1893.. .A financial Panic rocks the Nation. Gray's Bay dam is improved; original had <br />been built in 1852. Stubbs Bay Bederwood School is built. This now restored at Murphy's <br />Landing. <br />80 Years ago -1913... Electricity reaches Wa)^ta. It will cost you $3 for three months telephone <br />rent. The Luce Line Railroad is being \ud from Minneapolis to Watertown. <br />50 Years ago • 1943 ... from Minnetonka Herald - Jan. 21- "Roger Stubbs received a wire infenning <br />him of the safe arrival of his daughter. Cherry at Caracas, Venezuela, where she is employed at <br />the US Embassy." May 24th - a fire destroys the clubhouse at Woodhill Country Club. Sgt. <br />Hilton Beer, a paduaie of Wayzata High, is killed in action near Australia. <br />25 Years ago - 1968 .. .Hubert Hun^hrey loses Presidential election to Richard Nixon. Orono High <br />School is dedicated and the Long Lake school is closed. Our society aquires the building (built <br />1917) soon after. <br />Independence: <br />We are furiously searching for artifacts of old Independence township, for our new satellite <br />museum - the 1895 Town Hall. We have yet to find a good <4d photo of the hall. If you can assist <br />with pictures, documents or memorabilia please contact Earl Taylor or another director. <br />Keesling House: <br />A Wayzata landmark may soon be lost. The 1880 home, just west of Redeemer Lutheran <br />Church may be sold to a developer who wishes to put up a senior housing center. We hate to see it <br />go, but there certainly is a need for affordable housing and it is a lovely location, there on the hill <br />known as 'Piety Hill'. Benjamin F. Keesling and his wife Mary (Brunk) came to Wayzata in 1856 <br />and for a time ran the Dudley Hotel. Benjamin served in the 11th Minnesota Regiment - Company G <br />during the Civil War. Great-great grandson David Ice resides there presently. (See Sun-Sailor article <br />of March 17). <br />The Ice family is prtMninent in local history. Charles Ice, a native of Kentucky and his wife <br />Permelia built a 2-story cabin overlooking Browns Bay. They would have been among the promoters <br />of the ill-fated 'Rat Road', which was to connect the Watenown Road from Wayzata with the Brown <br />Bay road(Hwy 15 today), dissecting lands that are today Wayzata Country Club and Woodhill <br />Coimtry Qub;. The route was never finalized, however the railroad overpass is still visible from <br />Hwy. 12 at the east border of Woodhill. Charles (II) Babb Ice was a blacksmith in Wayzata. Mike Ice <br />(son of Joseph & Margaret Ann McDonnell) was in the the well drilling business. (See an article in <br />March 17 Sun-Sailor.) <br />YOU CAN HELP! <br />Anyone interested in submitting to this section with history notes, meeting dates, preservation <br />hints or whatever, we want to hear ftxxn you! Call Jim Roehl at the Museum <br />Kitciien Aid <br />We are in dire need of your un-used pots, pans, bread pans, mixing bowls, measuring cups, utensils, <br />and what-have-you for our cooking projects. Please call Liz Olson at tlie Museum if you can donate.