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usiness, invested in real estate, and built and owned Worthington‟s Hotel Thompson. Peter Thompson Jr. was so involved in Worthington‟s founding that he has come to be called “The Father of Worthington”. In 1884 Peter and Christina Thompson sold their property and two-story house at 300 Third Street West to George Jacob and Barbara Magdalena (Lena) Zimbleman, perhaps after having rented it out for some years after they moved to Worthington. The Zimblemans were married on March 6, 1879 at the home of John and Barbara (Bastian) Bloedel in Carver. Mrs. Zimbleman was a daughter of the Bloedels and a product of their 1857 marriage, the first marriage known in Carver County. The Bloedels were pioneers in Carver where John set up an early blacksmith and wagon making shop and apprenticed in the blacksmith trade another Carver pioneer, Charles Dauwalter. In February 1864 John Bloedel suffered from a destructive fire, and in February 1868 his large Carver wagon making and blacksmith shop burned down, with a loss of $3500, of which only $1000 was insured. Already in 1857 the Bloedels owned the Fourth Street East property, on which the large John Funk Jr. Victorian House was built in 1902, and in 1882 that same property was owned by both the Bloedels and the Zimblemans. It may well be that this property was the site of the original John Bloedel blacksmith and wagon making shop. Fires seem to have run in the family, for between 10:30 and 11:00 p.m. on Sunday night, January 30, 1887, while the Zimblemans were visiting the Bloedels, their home at 300 Third Street West burned, started, it was believed, from a spark from the wood stove. The building was a total loss, including $2000 above what they it been insured for. The Zimblemans built a small new house on the site, probably later that year, and yet sometime later an ell was added, forming the present house into a “T” plan. Bricks continue to be found on the property today, probably remnants of the earlier burned house. George Jacob Zimbleman was a Carver businessman in the insurance business. In local newspapers in 1887 he advertised that the Zimbleman Insurance Agency offered insurance for fire, tornado, life, accident, and livestock, as well as money to loan. The disastrous fire of 1887 and the building of a new house seem to have stretched Zimbleman to the limit. In 1888 local newspapers noted that Zimbleman owed money to several insurance companies for which he acted as agent, as well as to parties inside and outside of Carver. The Carver Free Press newspaper of February 1888 noted that Zimbleman of Carver had “jumped the country”, leaving “a wife and child behind and they are to be pitied”. One account noted that Zimbleman was seen catching a train out of Waconia. In 1895 Zimbleman was known to be working at a San Francisco, California brewery, then calling himself Jacob Zimbleman. Later in 1887 Albert and Mary Kacher purchased the home for $1100, owning it until 1892 when they sold it to Solomon and Emma Johnson, who owned it until 1913. Solomon Johnson came to Carver County in 1856 and had owned a farmstead in Dahlgren Township, just outside of Carver, retiring to the Zimbleman house. Solomon‟s wife Emma was the organist at Salem Lutheran church, diagonally across the street from
their home. From the Johnsons the house passed during the Depression in 1931 to Andrew P. Larson, a widower and perhaps another retired farmer, for $1500. 308 Third Street West, Olaf Hanson House. Built in 1882, by and for Olaf Hanson (often also spelled Hansen), an immigrant from Denmark who was born in 1851. The wooden-framed house is built in the Eastlake/Queen Ann Victorian revival style and featured a once-open porch, picture window, and heavy roof cresting on the peaks. In 1882 Olof Hanson acquired the two lots for the building of the house from Charles W. Schultz for $75. Schultz had divided the two lots from a larger parcel of lots he had acquired in 1879 from Benjamin F. Toby (Tobey). Olaf Hanson also built several other Carver buildings, including the Neunsinger Hotel (1897), which was located on Broadway and Fourth Streets where the Carver City Hall now sits, the Church by the River (1913), Trinity Church (1914), and is probably responsible for building several of Carver‟s 1880s and 1890s Victorian homes as well as the Eastlake embellishments found on many Carver homes, including most certainly the Gables at 201 Fourth Street East and the Charles Dauwalter Jr. House at 413 Broadway. He also repaired the Carver County Court House after it was damaged by a severe storm and was involved in the design and building of a ferryboat to be used for crossing the Minnesota River at Carver. In 1900 the Weekly Valley Herald newspaper described Hanson as the leading Carver County builder. In 1877 Olaf Hanson married Amelia (Mollie) Schirmer (born in 1854), whose father, Frank Schirmer, was a German States immigrant who farmed in Carver County. The house was owned by Hanson‟s wife and descendants until the 1930s, then passed to Nellie Baxter in 1941. In 1953 Nellie Baxter sold it to Elmer G. (Gus) and Gladys G. Kraemer. The Kraemers ran Kraemers Carver Café at different locations and for different periods of time on Broadway. Elmer Kraemer served as Mayor of Carver for two terms in the 1950s, dying suddenly at age 47 while in office. 316 Third Street West, Holm-Muehlberg House. Built on two lots about 1882 during the ownership of Swan Andersson Holm, perhaps with construction help from his next door neighbor, Carver master builder Olaf Hanson. In 1875 Swan Holm purchased the first of the two lots, and in 1881 he bought the second of the lots upon which the house was built. By May 1899 the house sat on lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of Block 32 in Carver. Early on the house was a two-story house in ell shape, with a porch in the front east angle of the ell. On the west side of the house was a one-story addition, and there was a twostory stable at the rear of the property. Sven (Swan) Andersson Holm was born in Asåka in Skaraborg County, Sweden on Oct. 31, 1828 and immigrated to the United States in 1858. He was married to widow Maria (Maja) Andersdotter, who was born in Sweden on Aug. 19, 1821 and came to the United States with her first husband and son in 1855. The 1880 U. S. Census shows that Swan (Sven) Holm was a laborer and that he and Maria were living in Carver and then had two children living at home, a daughter, Christin[a], about 21, and a son, August, about 16, who was working as a blacksmith, probably as an assistant or apprentice to one of Carver‟s blacksmiths.
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and by force of habit yelled, “Wh
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In July 1855 he came to Carver Coun
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grocery store, facing Main Street a
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hanged in Carver County, sometimes
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usiness. For their work the Witts r
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Sweden in 1847. In 1872, when he wa
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went into the drugstore business in
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After purchasing the business from
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Edblom operated the grocery store u
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Anton Knoblauch was a merchant, a b
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liquors, and cigars. An 1880 advert
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1924-1939 it served as Carver‟s W
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saloon, and perhaps also Peter Bute
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Weekly Valley Herald newspaper. Jac
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Hermann immigrated to America with
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Joseph Peitz died in the early 1860
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formed and headed Carver-on the-Min
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the stone for the bridge being obta
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Carver County Sheriff‟s Office se
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On Aug. 21, 1943 at the league‟s
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and owned by Carver banker and merc
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hotel keeper in his own right. A. M
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Riverside Park. During those years
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occupied the site for many decades.
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on the south end of the front side,
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the park and new pavilion. Total es
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February 13, 1909. The Michels‟ s
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and 1867 Enoch Holmes acquired the
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Another much smaller H & D Railroad
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Business Directory for 1873 the Her
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urned, killing two, including the p
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the Carver Depot, purchased the Min
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the tide away from St. Paul as the
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way home after walking to Carver to
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constructed shortly thereafter, whi
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In 1891 Enoch Holmes sold the two-s
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The Carver House/Planter‟s House,
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Skoog-Wetter General Store. Once lo
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