Franklin Elementary School
By A BECHS Volunteer There are 10 elementary schools located in the Mankato Area Public Schools system and while [...]
A Business That Nets Its Owner a Year’s Income in Seven Months
by Win Grundmeier Clyde Wycoff, proprietor of Wycoff’s Oasis in West Mankato, opened his drive-in in 1931, during the [...]
Round Barns
By Hilda Parks The architecture of round barns is often traced to a Shaker community in Hancock, Massachusetts, [...]
The Circus Comes to Town
By a BECHS Volunteer Many of us remember that in the hot summer days the Big Top appeared in [...]
Union School
By a BECHS Volunteer The lot located at the corner of Broad and Mulberry streets in Mankato has been [...]
Steamboat on the Minnesota
By Hilda Parks Steamboats once plied the Minnesota River, as far as the Upper Sioux Agency below Granite Falls, [...]
Mankato Normal School
By Jacob Johnson Minnesota State University has gone by many names since the 1800s, but the first name the [...]
Lovelace’s scrapbook comes alive with humor and charm
By Anna Freyberg Sifting through a copy of the famous Mankato writer’s scrapbook, it feels as though I’m being [...]
Christmas of 1885
Holiday traditions have not changed much in the past 130 years. December in Blue Earth County in 1885 was [...]
Mankato High School Fire
By Grace Webb Mankato High School, a majestic building constructed in 1891, burned to the ground on July 19, [...]