This week in Seward
Nothing on Seward’s calendar for the next two weeks yet.
About Seward
Seward sits between Hiawatha Avenue and the Mississippi River in south Minneapolis, named for William H. Seward, the U.S. secretary of state. Much of it was cow pasture in the 1850s, and from 1865 to 1884 a fairground south of Franklin Avenue held fifteen big fairs, three of them Minnesota State Fairs. The Milwaukee Road railroad arrived in 1870, and immigrant rail workers filled small homes like the rows of brick-faced cottages on Milwaukee Avenue, which neighbors saved from the wrecking ball in the 1970s. Today Seward feels like a small town in a big city, with a park at its center, a busy business strip on Franklin Avenue with co-ops and East African cafes, the Winchell Trail along the river, and neighbors who gather for a garden tour and fall yard sale days.