This week in Bloomington
Nothing on Bloomington’s calendar for the next two weeks yet.
About Bloomington
Bloomington sits on the north bank of the Minnesota River, where Dakota families lived at Oak Grove long before farms came. In 1843 a farmer named Peter Quinn and a missionary, Gideon Pond, built the first cabins of the new settlement, and Pond later baked bricks on the spot for a house that still stands. The little farm town became a city in 1960 and then the home ground of the Twins and Vikings until 1981. Today people know it for the Mall of America, a big park system, Hyland Hills' ski runs and a lively farmers market.