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The beginnings of Richfield day again to the 1850s, when it was nevertheless a small farming neighborhood. Shut to Minneapolis and Fort Snelling, it was on the edge of a rising and expanding city with organization and commerce not considerably absent. A single of the 1st settlers was Riley Bartholomew, a previous Basic in the Ohio Militia who became a Richfield Justice of the Peace and a Minnesota Condition Senator. Bartholomew constructed a house on the east shore of Wood Lake in 1852, and the restored Riley Lucas Bartholomew Property is outlined on the National Register of Historic Spots. Today, the household and web site are preserved by the Richfield Historic Modern society. In the early days, Richfield extended as far north as Lake Street, and included existing day Edina on the west, and extended to the Mississippi and the Minnesota Rivers on the east, and to Bloomington on the south. On May possibly eleven, 1858 as Congress was admitting Minnesota into the Union, the early residents of Richfield had their first town assembly. That very same year Richfield was named for the fertile farm land it encompassed. By 1879, the community\'s first city corridor was constructed. Early residents ended up German, Irish and households from the New England spot. These citizens were shortly joined by immigrants from Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
It was not right up until 1908 that Richfield became a village. From 1908 until eventually 1950, Richfield\'s neighborhood governing administration consisted of a President, a few trustees, and a clerk. On November seven, 1950 citizens voted for a village manager kind of federal government, which means the City had a Mayor, four council members, and one particular City Supervisor. This is still the type of authorities applied these days. Richfield\'s initially Mayor was Clarence Christian who commenced serving in 1951 but served as President less than the previous format relationship back again to 1948. By the late nineteen forties, the city\'s inhabitants started off escalating swiftly as farmland was sold to builders who had been building properties for veterans returning from World War II. In 1955 the Richfield Chamber of Commerce was formed and has been deeply concerned in the growth, as properly as the redevelopment, of the local community due to the fact that time.
The 1st 50 percent of the twentieth century also noticed the boundaries of Richfield modify, as annexations lessened the dimension of the city. Three annexations by Minneapolis brought the village to 62nd Road, its existing north boundary. In 1888, Edina fashioned a separate group and in 1905 a part of the east to 34th Avenue was requisitioned by Fort Snelling. In 1941 one more segment of East Richfield went to the Minneapolis�Saint Paul Worldwide Airport, and by 1955 all of the Wold-Chamberlain Subject (municipal airport) was divided from the village.
