Welcome to Red Wing's East End

    The East End has long been recognized for its natural beauty.  It is nestled within two landmark
    bluffs and connects three major parks. It is the area of Chief Red Wing’s village.  The Dakota
    community gardens were once where the City Hall and other businesses to the west stand now.  
    Later, the neighborhood was a place of “heart and hard work” and supplied the manpower for
    many early industries of Red Wing, such as, the quarries.  Many people have good memories of
    times when it was a community of mutually supportive relationships.
View of Barn Bluff from Memorial Park
Entrance to Barn Bluff
Entrance to Colvill Park
Entrance to Memorial Park
A Sustainability Neighborhood
                                EAST END HISTORY PROJECT

Have you visited the beautiful Discovery Garden in Colvill Park?  Do you have a plot at the Bluff View   
Community Garden?  Do you know anything about the Sten family’s greenhouses from 1902-1945?  Was
yours one of the neighborhood families fed by the abundant produce from the Zemke family garden in the
1950s on the site of what is now Bluff View Park?  Did you have a Victory Garden?

If so, the East End History Project needs you!  The Project is a combined effort of the Goodhue County
Historical Museum and the East End Sustainable Development Group to record and preserve the East End's
storied past.  Current and past East End residents are invited to send in their anecdotes and remembrances of
East End gardens and gardeners.  A selection of these green-fingered tales will be published in the Historical
Museum’s newsletter and added to the Sustainable Development Group’s website.

Email your East End garden memories to joseton95@gmail.com or mail to East End History Project, c/o
Diane Buganski, Outreach Coordinator, Goodhue County Historical Society, 1166 Oak Street, Red Wing,
MN 55066.

For more information on the Project, call Diane at 651-388-6024 or email her at
goodhuecountyhis@qwestoffice.net.  For more information about the Goodhue County Historical Society and
the East End Sustainable Development Group, see their respective websites:  
www.goodhuehistory.mus.mn.us or   www.rwesdg.org
The Bluff View Community Garden Mural
The Discovery Garden - Colvill Park
“The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing
challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.”