What a Swede Cache!! Traditional Cache
meralgia: this one was fun, but i think i'm done with The Hollow. I'll pull the cache when it's not frozen to the ground. :)
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Swede Hollow Park, 615 7th St. E., 25.51 acres.
* There is a small parking lot south of Payne at 7th Street; this is probably your best approach, and you'll walk through a neat historic bridge/tunnel to access the cache.
* Another access point is a small parking lot two blocks north of the intersection of Greenbrier and Seventh Streets (in a residental section). There is a long set of stairs that descend into Swede Hollow, and it will test your endurance on the way back up!
* A third approach is through a small walking tunnel off Payne Avenue (north of 7th Street) and Beaumont Street.
Have a relaxing walk through Swede Hollow, but be sure to plug your nose and tiptoe through the runoff at some points along the trail!
Blurbs from "The Street Where You Live":
Bates Avenue (p. 21)
Barton and Omaha were two intersecting streets south of Randolph Avenue, east of the Omaha railroad shops. As early as 1884, squatters lived in more than a dozen houses along the river between the shops and the railroad bridge. The colony lacked any municipal services and, according to the author’s recollection, had a distinctly rural flavor to it. The city lost a bit of colorful disorder when both streets and the houses were taken for the realignment of Shepard Road in the 1990s. In one of his books, Gareth Hiebert writes about a visit to the colony in the 1950s.
Culvert Street (p. 66)
A candidate for the most unimaginative name given any street in all of St. Paul, this one was bestowed in 1886 by John and Susan Wagener. The culvert’s questionable claim to fame was that it carried Phalen Creek out of Swede Hollow and under East Seventh Street. Early residents of Swede Hollow, in cleaning up the creek at their doorstep, considered the task completed when the sweage had been flushed down the Hollow and into this culvert, where it was out of sight and on its way to the Mississippi River. This street was vacated in 1998.
Fountain Place (p. 101)
Originally part of Preble Street, the name was changed in 1890. A century ago, on the sweeping hillside in front of the only home on the street, number 614, a series of waterfalls cascaded into a large, stone pool in Swede Hollow. The whole arrangement was graced with stone fences, walkways, terraces, and to one side, a wrought-iron rose trellis. To follow this obscure street into the past, the intrepid urban traipser would turn north on Bates Avenue off East Seventh Street, go west on North street, and turn right into the cul-de-sac of Fountain Place.
Mounds Boulevard (p.190)
Developed as part of Indian Mounds Park, the boulevard was designed to connect with Phalen Park by way of Johnson Parkway. At one time, Mounds Boulevard was projected to extend in the other direction, winding across Swede Hollow, along the crest of Mt. Ida, down to Mississippi Street, up to Mt. Airy, and west to the State Capitol."
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