Neighborhoods of Duluth: Hunter’s Park, Hartley Field, Duluth, Minnesota

Hunter’s Park; Hartley Field; lettuce crop; women and men laborers harvesting lettuce; baskets; wagon; Duluth property of Canadian born Gilford Graham Hartley (1853-1922); agriculture was only one of many Hartley interests; the Allendale Farm at Woodland in Duluth began in 1890 with 80 acres and in twenty years was about 800 acres; this 80 acre piece was cleared and drained to raise head lettuce, spinach and celery

~ Photo Credit: University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections

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