Garden City Almost County Seat
By Mike Lagerquist For one week a year, when the Blue Earth County Fair is held there, the sleepy [...]
Tourtellotte Pool
By Gideon Afolayan You might have driven by Tourtellotte Park and thought about where the name comes from, or [...]
A Micro Batch of Mankato’s Brewing History
By Jessica Helmers Beer is an everyman’s drink. It came from a region of humble pursuits, like so many [...]
Graduations in Mankato High School’s history
by Grace Webb While students have been graduating from Mankato high schools since the 1870s, the commencement ceremony and [...]
Dr. Helen Hughes Hielscher
By Win Grundmeier (2011) Truly a light of the first magnitude in southern Minnesota. She was a medical [...]
Tinkcomville was once a well-known place in Mankato
by Hilda Parks The name James Ray Tinkcom or Tinkcomville may not be familiar, but James Avenue, which now [...]
Jamestown Township
Excerpt from The Heritage of Blue Earth County by Julie Schrader, Topic 113, available in the Research & Genealogy Center. [...]
Candy Companies in Mankato
By Hilda Parks February 1893 was an as auspicious month for anyone in the area with a sweet tooth. [...]
Mankato’s First Radio Tower
By a BECHS Volunteer Mankato’s first radio station was KYSM, which was constructed in 1938. The station cost about [...]
Minneopa State Park
By a BECHS Volunteer The word “Minneopa” comes from the Dakota language, and is translated to English to mean [...]