Edina’s First Refugees: The Irish at Cahill Settlement

Experience the heroic story of some of Edina’s earliest European settlers. These heroic pioneers fled one of Europe’s most devastating epidemics—the Potato Famine—to settle among the rolling hills of what was then southwestern Richfield township. The story of the Cahill Irish is the story of a community within a community, one that left a lasting mark on the Edina we know today.