Minnesota's Greatest Generation

Road graders at work in Richfield, Minnesota, 1955.

Suburban neighborhoods in the 1950s sprang up so quickly that road crews could barely keep up with them. Marian Maxson of Richfield remembered the dirt roads that ran past her home on West 68th Street, and how few streets were paved when her family moved into the neighborhood during the war.

Creator: Robert Travis Keagle
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Date: 1955
Identifer: location HE3.81 p22

Road graders at work in Richfield, Minnesota, 1955.