- 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