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Overview
Best known for the world-renowned Mayo Clinic, Rochester's rich history holds so much more beyond medical excellence. But why was the world's greatest medical center built virtually in the middle of a corn field in the first place? What happened to the Native Americans in the area? Were there ever bears in Bear Creek? Why are there so many geese at Silver Lake, and how did the Zumbro River get its name? What do the extinction of the dinosaurs and the passenger pigeon have to do with Rochester?
Retired Mayo Clinic doctor and Rochester native Paul Scanlon answers these questions and more in this collection of historic tales from Med City.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781467149167 |
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| Publisher: | Arcadia Publishing SC |
| Publication date: | 06/07/2021 |
| Series: | American Chronicles |
| Pages: | 208 |
| Sales rank: | 1,103,783 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 9
Preface: Historical but Not a Conventional History 11
1 Small-Town Beginnings
Why Rochester? 1854 15
Is Olmsted Spelled Correctly? 18
Histories of Olmsted County and Other Sources 20
The Zumbro River (The Mighty Z) 21
What Happened to the Local Indians? 1862 23
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! 30
The Passenger Pigeon 31
Stagecoaches to Trains to Planes 33
Dee Cabin 37
Civil War-An Oxymoron 38
W.W. Mayo Comes to Town, 1863 39
Old Central School, 1868 41
Henry S. Wellcome 44
Andreas's Historical Atlas of the State of Minnesota, 1874 46
Gunfight, 1877 48
Second Minnesota Hospital for the Insane, 1879 49
Geology: Karst, Caves, Sinkholes and Mounds 52
2 Mess to Mecca
"The Cyclones," 1883 56
St. Marys Hospital, Mother Alfred and W.W. Mayo, 1889 59
My Brother and I 63
The Surgeons' Club 70
Nursing Education 71
The Queen City v. Med City 74
Schuster Brewery 75
Fire! 76
Rochester Public Library 80
Mayo Gifts 82
Revival-Billy Sunday, 1906 85
Women at Mayo Clinic-Great Beginnings with an Unfortunate Middle Act 86
Dr. Leda Stacy, a Pioneer in Four Medical Fields, 1908 88
Mayowood, 1911 89
The First Mayo Clinic: The Medical Block, the Red Brick Building, the 1914 Building 91
The Foundation House, Residence of Dr. Will and Hattie Mayo, 1915 94
Boats-Oronoco, Minnesota, North Star 96
The National Guard Armory, "The Castle," 1916 98
Plummer House, 1917 99
World War I, 1917-18 101
The War Is Almost Over! Let's Rename All the Streets but Keep Broadway and Third Street the Same! 1918 102
Influenza Pandemic, 1918 105
The Fair, 1919 108
Soldiers Memorial Field Park 110
Kahler and Methodist 112
Nobel Laureates-Count 'Em-Five! 119
The Chateau, 1927 121
Subway? Where's the Train? 122
Dr. Chuck 123
Plummer Building, 1928 126
The Ear of Corn Water Tower-The "Corn Cob" 131
FDR 132
The Depression 133
Silver Lake 135
Giant Canada Geese 137
One Million 139
Lou Gehrig, 1939 139
Mayo Clinic in World War II 140
The Aero Medical Unit 141
Newton Holland and Rochester Art Center 143
Mayo Memorial 145
3 In My Lifetime
Polio, 1952 148
Justice Harry Blackmun 149
"Big Blue," 1956 151
Mayo v. Mayo 153
Black and Immigrant Experiences 155
Mayo Brothers Commemorative Stamp, 1964 158
LBJ 159
Benny's 160
Solo Nobel Prize in Physics for Luis Alvarez, 1968 161
Notable Rochester Athletes 163
Hotels-An Ocean Resort City with No Ocean? 166
The Flood of 1978 170
Falcons, 1987 172
The Brom Murders, 1988 174
Blizzards 175
Money Magazine-Best Place to Live 178
Barbara Woodward Lips 178
Lgbtqi at Mayo-Oh My!, 2000 179
Art and Healing-The Mayo Clinic Art Collection 180
Star Tribune: "Rochester Reelects Dead Man" 185
Nation's Best and World's Best Medical Center 186
Why Did They Build the World-Famous Mayo Clinic (the WFMC) in the Middle of the Cornfields in Rochester, Minnesota? 187
Notes 191
Sources 201
Index 203
About the Author 207