The Circus Comes to Town
Many of us remember that on hot summer days the Big Top appeared in Mankato. Perhaps we still see [...]
Many of us remember that on hot summer days the Big Top appeared in Mankato. Perhaps we still see [...]
The lot located at the corner of Broad and Mulberry streets in Mankato has been called home by more [...]
Steamboats once plied the Minnesota River, as far as the Upper Sioux Agency below Granite Falls, carrying passengers and [...]
Minnesota State University has gone by many names since the 1800s, but the first name the university went by [...]
By Anna Freyberg Sifting through a copy of the famous Mankato writer’s scrapbook, it feels as though I’m being [...]
Holiday traditions have not changed much in the past 130 years. December in Blue Earth County in 1885 was [...]
Mankato High School, a majestic building constructed in 1891, burned to the ground on July 19, 1941. The building [...]
In March and April 1918, people across the United States began coming down with influenza. While the illness rarely [...]
The trail of events that forms the history of a community often takes some sharp curves. The factors which [...]
Excerpt from The Heritage of Blue Earth County by Julie Schrader, Topic 157, available in the Research & Genealogy [...]