Many Richfield residents of the post-war era remembered looking out the windows of their newly built tract homes and seeing farm fields. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s housing development in Richfield continued at a rapid pace, gobbling up farms and expanding the urban landscape south of Minneapolis.
This photograph from 1954 shows the encroachment of housing near a farmer's land at 62nd Street and Penn Avenue South in Richfield.
Creator: Minneapolis Star
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Date: 1954
Identifer: location MH5.9 RF3.2 p3
