This sound clip highlights Audrey Jensen's "Years Gone By" written for the Roseau County Centennial Book. The Roseau County Historical Society prepared this radio script to share county history through broadcasts on KJ102 FM in Roseau. The topics highlight the history of Roseau County and the people that lived there.
Wellington Schroeder discusses where he was born and his childhood home; coming to Minnesota on a train and seeing the largest flour mill in the world; his father's farm at Sanford, Minnesota; hauling supplies for logging camps near Grand Rapids; helping unload the first steel rails of the Deer River logging railroad; how much different men in the logging camps made; being barn boss for the teamsters at a logging camp; the poor logging conditions in 1892-93; the financial constraints of logging companies; ice fishing on Maple Lake; starting a store in Bemidji; coming to Bemidji from Osakis; early businesses in Bemidji; hauling supplies for his store from Park Rapids; his custom-made wagon; making a killing on flour; hauling money for a bank; fixing the roads as he passed over them; his route into tow; following lumber teams to know where it was safe to drive; and buying and shipping blueberries. The interview continues in BCHS 084a.
This sound clip highlights Hans Martin Hanson and his son Karl E Hanson of Elkwood Twp. The Roseau County Historical Society prepared this radio script to share county history through broadcasts on KJ102 FM in Roseau. The topics highlight the history of Roseau County and the people that lived there.
