Saint Paul History: Swede Hollow

Until its demolition in 1956 for public health reasons, Swede Hollow was the first neighborhood for many new immigrants to Saint Paul.

[@lloydchristmas_iii6990]

this park is super cool park alot of history on those grounds also has an awesome view of the hamms brewery

[@thomasandersson367]

I am Swedish and here in Sweden it has just been published a book called Swede Hollow, which is about a family emigrating to Usa and they end up in Swede Hollow. It may come to usa too.

[@tobias5627]

Really amazing story! I'm from Sweden and have ancestors in Saint Paul. This stories were cool knowing:)

[@WBHarley5]

I wish this has captions or subtitles for deaf people my great grandparents on both of my mother's parents were from Sweden :( I'm so interesting to learn more but my communication barrier growing up hearing from my family talking about it which I didn't understood. :(

[@SamSite33]

Wow

[@vickilindberg6336]

Possible correction: "Peasants". You had to own land to be qualified to get a peasant. Many of the immediate grants were "laborers," too poor to qualify as peasants.

[@joswanell9672]

Damn St Paul Fire Department!

[@jimbressler1333]

Minnesota used to be cool

[@Cikeb]

Flourished? Haven? Are you serious?! It was the lowest of low in Saint Paul. A slum in the truest meaning of the word and the residents could be evicted at any time without notice. The city was "amazed" when they "discovered" the dirty community that was without sewers all along? Oh, they knew about it. They just didn't bother as no one bothered them about it. Swede Hollow was dirty and child mortality was higher down there than in any other part of the city. An interesting perspective was also that according to many sources from the end of the 19th century the Swedes were not considered "white" by the local population. Just goes to show how imaginary that whole race thing is.

[@yourmama9190]

My Italian family moved here from ITALY