The brick companies in Shakopee, including the Schroeder Brick and Lime Manufacturing Company, the families, the grandson, the lime kiln accident, the children who worked there at 4 cents an hour, and the well-known potter who all worked along the river.

Presented on Tuesday, August 11, 2026 at Benedictine Living Community, Windermere Way.

Discussed are:

• Lime Kilns (1851-1900)
  • Moses Starr Titus (1819-1878)
  • Thomas A. Holmes (1804-1888)
  • Johan Batsiste Conter (1830)
  • Barbara Wagner Conter
  • Isaac N. Lincoln III (1823-1908)
  • Lois Lucina Bingham Lincoln (1830-1912)
  • Isaac Lincoln, Jr. (1855-1894)
  • Cora Adele McDuffy Lincoln (1854-1947)
  • Barnard “Ben” Joseph Hartz (1866-1959)
  • Louise Catherina Henrietta Arndt Hartz (1960)
• Schroeder Brick and Lime Manufacturing Company (1876-1941)
  • Herman Frederick Schroeder (1854-1922)
  • Ralph Schroeder (1915-1972)
  • Son of August Valentine Kruger (1858-1940)
  • Agnes Steinberg Kruger (1860-1959)
  • Workers
    • John Connor (ca. 1825-1878)
    • Caroline Neafsey O’Connor (ca. 1834-1897)
• Hiram Adam Flecken Brickyard (1873-1878)
  • Brickyard in Southeast Shakopee (1873-1878)
  • Hiram Adam Flecken (1840-1931)
  • Maria Josepha Dicken Flecken (1850-1924)
• The Potter
  • Johann “John” Paul (1819-1900)
  • Margaretha Leibe Paul (1842-1917)

Hilary Drees and his wife, Irene, talk about growing up in Shakopee, including living just north of Pearson Elementary School on a farm with hogs, at the April 13, 2019 Shakopee Heritage Society Membership Meeting.

Gib Delbow talks about Shakopee downtown history, including its many bars, at the October 15, 2011 Shakopee Heritage Society Membership Meeting.

Special thanks to Brenda Fonder for donating the DVD of Gib’s presentation that we used to produce the final version.

After purchasing the Hubers’ Shakopee Scrapbook, Joanne Musick became interested in Shakopee’s history. This led to her shooting modern photos of various photos from the scrapbook and other historic photos, making a modern scrapbook. She shares her then and now photos at this presentation at the Shakopee Heritage Society membership meeting on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019.

A presentation by David Schleper for the Sakpe ti Senior Lounge, on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018.

Learn about the floods, the drownings, the steamboats, the ferries, and the bridges, and all that make Shakopee the place to live.

A presentation by David Schleper for the Sakpe ti Senior Lounge, on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018.

Learn about the sports in early Shakopee, including Ta-ka-psi-ca-pi, or lacrosse, that men and women of the Dakota played on the prairie in the 1840s, to baseball played at Riverside Park, to football and baseball played by companies and schools in Shakopee.

A presentation by David R. Schleper for the Shakopee Heritage Society Membership Meeting on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018. This presentation covers life in Shakopee in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, when Shakopee had a reputation as “Little Chicago.”

See other videos recorded by the Shakopee Heritage Society.

When Thomas A. Holmes and William Louis Quinn arrived in the area called Holmes Landing (later called Shakopee) the area was called Tiŋta-otoŋwe, a village of 600 Dakota Indians. Learn about the white people who moved to the area over the next few years, and the Indians who were already here for 175 years before the white people arrived.

This presentation by Shakopee Heritage Society Vice-President and Senior Research Chair David R. Schleper was held on Oct. 9, 2018 for the Sakpe ti Senior Lounge at the Shakopee Community Center, as part of the History of Shakopee Series.

See other videos recorded by the Shakopee Heritage Society.

Shakopee has 12 schools. But many years ago, schools happened in houses, in churches, and in log cabins. Over time, public schools started popping up around the area of Shakopee. Learn about some of the schools in the area, and how they grew to fit the population of people who lived in our town.

This presentation by Shakopee Heritage Society Vice-President and Senior Research Chair David R. Schleper was held on Sept. 11, 2018 for the Sakpe ti Senior Lounge at the Shakopee Community Center, as part of the History of Shakopee Series.

See other videos recorded by the Shakopee Heritage Society.