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Cahill: Store







Cahill School & Grange

at Tupa Park
4816 Eden Avenue
Edina, MN
952-448-4022

Hours:
By reservation only

Directions and map

History-themed programming at Cahill School and Minnehaha Grange No. 398 are offered by the Edina Historical Society. Both buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and owned by the City of Edina.


Find sunbonnets, slates and more at Cahill Store

Cahill School gift shop contains a variety of merchandise typically used by children in pioneer Minnesota, including cotton sunbonnets, matching doll sunbonnets, slates, slate pencils, handmade soap, tin lunch pails, marbles, etc. The items are for sale during the lunch break. Teachers: please prepare your students (and their parents!) by telling them what’s available and asking that children bring money in envelopes on which parents indicate which of these items their children may buy:


Store merchandise:

Handmade girls’ sunbonnets: $10
Matching doll sunbonnets: $5
Coonskin caps: $10
Boys' handmade large neckerchiefs: $5
Old-fashioned marbles game: $4.50
Dominoes game: $5
Pick-up Sticks game: $5
Bags of jacks: $4
Old-fashioned slates, slate writer and wiper: $10
Slate writers: $1
Cloth slate wipers: $0.50
Cahill School cedar pencil: $1
Cahill School Lesson books: $1
Quill pen with ink recipes: $4
Tin cups: $5
Handmade soap: $1
Handmade hand-painted bird houses: $12
Cahill School and Grange Hall postcards $0.50
Cahill School stickers: $0.50
Farming in Early Minnesota book: $10

See complete price list with descriptions here.

Other Edina-related merchandise is offered at the Gift Shop at the Edina History Museum. For more information, call 612-928-4577.
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A visitor to Cahill School went home with one of the sunbonnets offered for sale in Cahill School store.
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