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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' bandanna neckerchiefs: $5
                                        Bags of marbles: $4.50
                                        Bags of jacks: $4
                                        Bags of hopscotch materials: $4.50
                                        Old-fashioned slates, slate writer and wiper: $10
                                        Slate writers: $1
                                        Cloth slate wipers: $0.50
                                        Cedar pencils: $1
                                        Lesson books: $1
                                        Quill pen with ink recipe: $3
                                        Cahill tin buckets: $7
                                        Tin cups: $5
                                        Handmade soap: $1
                                        Bird houses: $12
                                        Cahill School and Grange Hall postcards and stickers: $0.50
                                        Farming in Early Minnesota book: $10

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


                                        Edina Historical Society, 4711 W. 70th Street, Edina, MN 55435. 612-928-4577 Copyright 2009-2012