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60 years, 60 stories
In anticipation of Maplewood's 60th anniversary, local history buffs have teamed up to write a story each
week for the 60 weeks leading up to the anniversary on Feb. 26, 2017.
Stories are released each Thursday on Twitter, Facebook and Maplewood's #60Stories
webpage: mal2lewooclmn.gov/1513/60-Stories.
In one on the "Ghost town of Gladstone," Heritage Preservation Commissioner Peter Boulay writes about
the now-vanished city at English Street and Frost Avenue that later was absorbed into modern-day
Maplewood.
In 1886, William and Mary Dawson founded Gladstone, named after the British Prime Minister, Boulay
writes. It was a working man's town with two large manufacturing businesses, the St. Paul Plow Works
and the shops of the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad. Soon there were three saloons and one
nondenominational church.
The town, he reports, also had a constable, "Two Gun" Allen, and "the town wasn't shy to form an armed
posse, as well, when the need arose."
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