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You’re standing where it stood · Northeast corner of 1st and Maple Streets

Hoppy Radde’s shop

A blacksmith who repaired his shop after the 1904 cyclone, then moved to this corner in 1912 and sold “used stuff.”

1st and Maple Streets, 2020
1st and Maple Streets, 1930s
1930s2020

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Through the years

  1. By 1904Charles “Hoppy” Radde runs a blacksmith shop at 8 West 1st Street
  2. 1904He repairs the cyclone’s damage to his shop
  3. 1912He moves to this corner
  4. 1930sHis “used stuff” shop, with St. Joseph’s steeple showing through the tree

The story

Charles “Hoppy” Radde ran a blacksmith shop at 8 West 1st Street. The cyclone of 20 August 1904 damaged it, and he repaired it.

In 1912 he moved here, to the northeast corner of 1st and Maple, and by the 1930s ran a “used stuff” shop. The photograph looks east along 1st Street, with the steeple of St. Joseph’s showing through the tree.

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Sources

Photographs from the Waconia Heritage Association collection.

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