hiawatha lumber

Hiawatha Lumber Co. building

Forgotten

Forgotten — Biking along the empty side streets of South Minneapolis offers an interesting history of a neighborhood. Photo: Joseph Williams

Long single-story white industrial building with large white on dark gray signage across the top reading: HIAWATHA LUMBER CO. with other faded lettering

Wood Stock

Hiawatha Lumber has provided wood that built many Longfellow homes… Photo: Brian Donahue

a pair of shiny railroad tracks split and recede into the distance with sunset clouds in the background and dark industrial scape silhouette on the horizon

Sunset on the Tracks

over the closed Hiawatha Lumber… Photo: Chris Balck