At 06:22 PM 9/24/2005, you wrote: >Hi, > >I'm trying to determine where 68 Temperance Street was in Saint Paul >as of 1880. And what was the rep. of the street? Was this in what was >called "Swede Hollow." Or? > >This is of interest because a great-grandmother was working as a >servant at that address as of the 1980 US Census. She was age 18, >single, and born in Sweden. The establishment appears to have been a >saloon-with-boarding house. The 12 boarders all were working class >males, of Swedish and Norwegian birth, single, and ranging in age >from 19 to 41. > >If cannot help, a suggestion or two on next-best places to query >would be appreciated. Source: On the Street Where You Live, by Donald Empson, Witsend Press, 1975 (now out of print, though I've heard he's working on a new edition). Temperance St: "One of downtown's (therefore NOT in Swede Hollow) most obscure avenues, it was named in 1851 for the virtue of abstaining from alcoholic beverages. At this early date, temperance was a spirited question and the first society for that purpose had been organized in St. Paul only three years previous. It is said that, in its later years, the street was graced by a saloon." City directories sometimes have a listing in the back of where streets begin, the numbers for the major cross streets and where they end. That might be something else to check... Any one have any other ideas? Mary >Thanks............Roger Hughes (in Illinois) > >=============================================== > > Mary Bakeman [email protected] Ramsey MnGenWeb Coordintor http://www.parkbooks.com/MnGenWeb/ Park Genealogical Books http://www.parkbooks.com/