Ghost Towns in Blue Earth County
By Hilda Parks Pioneers settled and cleared the land. Crops were planted, and farming began. Sawmills and blacksmith shops [...]
Horse Racing in Mankato
By Hilda Parks Racing was once a popular pastime in the Mankato area: foot racing, bicycle racing, and horse [...]
A look at 1968
By Hilda Parks This article was originally written to correspond with a temporary exhibit: Coming of Age: 1968, which was [...]
Blue Earth County’s Courthouse
By Michael Lund In 1886 the lead architect by the name of Mr. Healy drew an accurate view of [...]
Creameries
By: Ollie Anderson Dairy was a big business in Blue Earth County from before the 1890s through the present [...]
Mind the Gap
By Kristin Matzke For thousands of years, the human race has built structures to surmount many obstacles of the [...]
Mankato’s Holstein Barn
By Hilda Parks J.C. Marlow arrived in Mankato in 1914, an eager young man with a job to do, [...]
Blue Earth County Established in 1853
In late January 1852, Parson K. Johnson and Henry Jackson, along with a few other men, set out from [...]
Steamboat on the Minnesota
By Hilda Parks Steamboats once plied the Minnesota River, as far as the Upper Sioux Agency below Granite Falls, [...]
Christmas of 1885
Holiday traditions have not changed much in the past 130 years. December in Blue Earth County in 1885 was [...]