Asa and Flora Tracy House
Tour Site #5
3632 St Croix Trl S | Google Maps
City of Afton Designated Historic Site
Asa and Flora married in Maine, then, when Asa was in his early twenties and Flora about eighteen, the young couple traveled to Afton. Asa worked as a lumberman (1850 Maine Census; 1857 Minnesota Territorial Census) and volunteered in the Civil War as a private in the Minnesota Company C, Regiment 7, for one year and five months, 1864-65. He ran the Stillwater shingle mill, Hersey, Bean & Brown, where he was badly injured in 1880.
Current resident of the Tracy house, Kathy Bolton-Iverson, offers that buildings throughout Washington County could have been shingled by Asa. She also heard that he probably built the back part of the building after returning from the war to possibly house an outdoor canning kitchen or as refuge for visiting pastors from the East (Asa’s place of origin).