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a. Camp Cozy had a dance hall and began developing a Dells -type resort with water flumes, <br />etc. Created on oxbows of the Elk River in 1920s. Project never fully realized. photos <br />available <br />2. Dance halls <br />a. Big Lake Pavilion <br />i. Penny arcade <br />ii. Different kinds of music on different days <br />iii. Engstrom first date photo, July 4, 1928 <br />3. Products in, tourists out <br />4. Transportation <br />a. Kids carpooled to go to high school in early years, because no bus picked them up <br />b. Many other kids boarded in town during the school term <br />5. Agriculture <br />a. truck crops: the Engstrom potato cellar <br />b. Christmas trees <br />c. Engstrom potato saxophone —saxophone bought with money saved from potatoes; one of <br />first saxes in area and many used it <br />d. Strawberries <br />e. Indian Springs Medical Water Co. was a natural resource harvested and sold <br />6. Agriculture (supplemental incomes common due to marginal farmland) <br />a. Farmers sought winter work in pineries and harvest season threshing in Red River Valley <br />b. Engstrom 1944 egg route in Twin Cities <br />i. Carcasses of muskrats were hung in coop, so chickens could eat protein and <br />provide fresh eggs in winter when many chickens quit laying eggs <br />(resourcefulness) <br />c. Farmers carpooled into Twin Cities in early years to supplement their incomes, ca. WW <br />lI <br />7. Conservation <br />a. 4-H director Ella Kringlund, Enoch Bjuge, County Agent <br />b. Sand Dunes State Park (Ella Kringlund very involved in its development) <br />c. Sherburne County Wildlife Refuge very controversial when created <br />d. Cox story and Conservation Plan <br />e. Gardner Graham started Bill Cox with trees <br />f. Most trees planted in rows <br />g. Bill Cox first planting in oak savanna area was with mixed species: caragana shrub, plum, <br />elm, cottonwood, jack pine, white pine, and red pine <br />i. Cambridge soil conservation office has tree planter used in Sand Dunes Forest <br />h. Sherburne County Conservation Club <br />i. Oral history of blowing sand <br />j. Bank sponsored tree planting <br />k. Hunting —group rabbit hunts in county, other hunting stories <br />1. Trapping stories in area; trapping provided important supplemental income. Archie <br />Larson was a fur buyer; Arnie Engstrom used money derived from trapping gophers to <br />buy his first roller skates (self-reliance and resourcefulness in area with poor farmland) <br />in. Don't forget birds as important area of focus for many people <br />8. Early history of communities <br />a. Big Lake was Humboldt <br />b. Becker was Pleasant Valley <br />c. Elk River's current motto is "Where City and Country Flow Together" —edge motto <br />d. Other early communities that evolved <br />9. Local sports/entertainment <br />Sherburne County Historical Society Heritage Center Interpretive Plan, April 21, 2005, page 106 <br />