Aerial View of the Mounds at the Twin Cities Arsenal, now in present-day Arden Hills

Description

Published

New Brighton Area Historical Society, PO Box 120624, New Brighton, MN 55123 1945?

Summary

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The Mounds' picturesque hills gave Mounds View Township and later the school district, high school and village their names. For many years a play area for youth, hikers, picnickers, and skiers, the Mounds were taken out of the public and private domain by the Army for the Twin Cities Arsenal in 1941 and has since been carved by the mining of its extremely high grade of sand and gravel. Pictured here is the excavation of the Arsenal Sand and Gravel Company which had produced 750,000 tons of sand and gravel per year. The buildings in the upper right perimeter of the photo are ammunition sheds from the Arsenal. Many area residents found employment at the Arsenal or gravel company.

Note

United States
Minnesota
Ramsey
Arden Hills

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