Visitors

Local Businesses.....

Bricks Pub & Grub - 218-384-3680

129 Broadway

Dine In / Take Out

Brickyard Restaurant - 218-384-3569

111 Broadway

Dine In / Take Out Closed on Monday and Tuesday

Wrenshall General Store - 218-384-4649

131 Broadway

Open 7 days a week

Gas / Diesel / Convenience / Gifts

Call ahead to order a Hunt Brothers pizza

Lots4Bid / Ponderosa Sales

131 Broadway

email:  ponderosasales@gmail.com

web: https://lots4bid.com/

Lots4bid is an online auction site with the office and warehouse located in Wrenshall behind the Wrenshall General Store. If you have any questions contact the owner Jeff Bloom @ the email above or 218-348-7521

Laveau Excavating & Trucking LLC

John Laveau- 218-391-2919

Seth Laveau- 218-269-9607

Wrenshall, MN

Septics, Driveways, Basements, Etc.

Food Farm

Janaki Fisher-Merritt- 218-384-4421

email:  janaki@foodfarm.us

Facebook & Instagram: @foodfarmcsa

Kent Well Drilling - (218) 384-9778

web: KentWellDrilling.com

Well Drilling and Pump Repair

The Backyard Playschool 

Karlene Dunaisky- (218) 590-1973

599 Maple Drive

Email: Backyardplayschool@gmail.com 

The Backyard Playschool is in its 30th year as a licensed Family Childcare serving ages 6wks to 12 years. We are nature play based, Parent Aware accredited program.

AA Alpaca Farm and Farm Store

Jamie and Laurie Kelner - 218-343-2418 or 218-390-1998

2271 Thell Road

Email: Lannklner@gmail.com

Now open weekends, Saturday and Sunday 10:00am-4:00pm

Will open upon request.

Check out the assortment of alpaca socks, hats, mittens, scarves, men's and women's sweaters, children items and more...Don't forget to visit the Alpacas while you visit the store.

HISTORY OF WRENSHALL

The City of Wrenshall was incorporated as a village in 1926.  It was named after Charles Christopher Wrenshall, a Northern Pacific engineer.  In the late 1800s, Wrenshall supervised building the railroad branch line from Carlton, Minnesota to Superior, Wisconsin. As was customary at the time the Northern Pacific named one of the new depot locations along this line in his honor.

The City of Wrenshall was actually started by Frederick Jacob Habhegger and his family of nine children.   Habhegger was born on December 3, 1836. He was born in Switzerland and immigrated to America with his parents and eleven brothers and sisters in 1853.  Habhegger learned the brick making trade while living in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.  The promise of good clay brought him north. In 1887 Habhegger bought 160 acres of land where Wrenshall is now located.A brickyard was started and soon Habhegger's bricks were in great demand. 

He expanded his business over the next 20 years shipping bricks all over the United States.  At its peak the brickyard produced approximately four million bricks/year and employed 35 men.  A number of buildings in the city including the First Presbyterian Church and the Brickyard Restaurant are made from bricks from this first brickyard. 

At the height of operations there were as many as six brickyards operating along the Northern Pacific corridor in this area within a one mile radius.  The last bricks were produced in Wrenshall in 1954.