Dear Hennepin County List, I am completely new to this list, and to research in the Minneapolis area. I am wondering about what an area of Minneapolis is called, and what the area is like now. My husband's Swedish ggggrandmother Carrie ANDERSON and her daughter Carrie EVENSTA (married to a Norwegian) lived in an area north of downtown Minneapolis. It was on the west side of the Mississippi River. Her address was 606 33rd Avenue North/3307 North 6th Street. This is north of Fairview Park and west of I-94. According to the 1900 census, this area was populated with folks working at many sawmill-related occupations. Could anyone tell me anything more about this neighborhood? What is it like now? Does it have a name? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Katherine Bellingham, WA

Katherine, Jo Hogle has given you a great description of the area your family lived and you can get a bit of a visual idea of what the area looked like too if you go to the MN History Center web site and the "Visual Resources Database". Just type in CAMDEN in the search box and leave everything else blank. There are several pictures of the neighborhoods and some of the homes during that time frame. Here's the address: http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/ Also, the Minneapolis Public Library has a database of photographs to search at http://www.mplib.org/dbtw-wpd/phosrc.htm Again, just put in the word CAMDEN, nothing else and several pictures from that area come up. You also might want to join the Hennepin County Roots-L mailing list as well. It's more specific to Minneapolis. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnhennep/ Claudia Schuman - Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnhennep/ http://hennbios.tripod.com/index.htm http://fdlbios.tripod.com/index.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnscott/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 3:25 PM Subject: [MNHENNEP] North Minneapolis Swedes > Dear Hennepin County List, > > I am completely new to this list, and to research in the Minneapolis area. I > am wondering about what an area of Minneapolis is called, and what the area > is like now. My husband's Swedish ggggrandmother Carrie ANDERSON and her > daughter Carrie EVENSTA (married to a Norwegian) lived in an area north of downtown > Minneapolis. It was on the west side of the Mississippi River. Her address > was 606 33rd Avenue North/3307 North 6th Street. This is north of Fairview Park > and west of I-94. According to the 1900 census, this area was populated > with folks working at many sawmill-related occupations. Could anyone tell me > anything more about this neighborhood? What is it like now? Does it have a > name? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you very much. > > Sincerely, > Katherine > Bellingham, WA >