Itasca, Minnesota

Itasca is an abandoned settlement in what is now the city of Ramsey, in Anoka County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

[1] Thomas A. Holmes and James Beatty built the Old Log Trading Post in 1849 at the townsite location.

Many other buildings, including the Stage Coach Barn[6] and the first post office in Anoka County, continued to be added.

The Itasca Village was near a heavily traveled Red River Oxcart Trail that brought goods and money to the town.

The post office remained until 1879 and was the first mailing address of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry.