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  • Lillydale Regional Park traces its history to 1965                                       
  • Historic river floods that year marked a profound change in the   
  • Mississippi River valley around St. Paul 
  • The floods left a soggy legacy, marking the beginning of the end for the historic immigrant neighborhoods on the West Side Flats
  • The Brickyard was the site of the Twin Cities Brick Company, which was founded in 1894 and continued to make bricks until the 1970s
  • The interest in brick-making boomed after a number of local villages and cities, constructed primarily of wood, burned during catastrophic fires during the late 1800s
  • This location is the site of one of many such operations
  •  Workers quarried Decorah shale on the bluff above this location and brought it down the steep hillside where it was processed and fired into bricks

 

Paranormal Claims:

  • Voices coming from the cave
  • Visitors feel like they are being watched
  • Visitors have claimed to see a woman in a light colored dress walking through the woods
  • Some claim to be touched by some unseen being