History

Artist will talk about native history in Mazeppa April 27

Apr 19, 2023

Sue Mundy will present Exploring Native Wabasha Area on Thursday, April 27, at 6 p.m. at the Mazeppa Community Center. A painter, Mundy was inspired to create when she discovered Native American burial mounds on her property in Dumfries, Minn. After researching the history of mounds and the...

State’s first Black voter was Lake City resident

Feb 22, 2023

February is Black History Month, and Lake City resident Jim Albright recently submitted a timely news item about a Lake City resident who made history over a century and a half ago. According to the Minnesota Historical Society’s MNopedia website, on Feb. 23, 1869, 154 years ago today, John...

Peters’ new book chronicles National Guard encampment that helped shape early Lake City

Feb 8, 2023

What started with the intention of writing a 15-page white paper has grown into a 300-plus page book with many photos chronicling the 50-year history of Camp Lakeview, a National Guard Camp on the south side of Lake City that operated from 1881 to 1931. It’s called History of Camp Lakeview...

Library to host local author talk about disaster book

Oct 26, 2022

The Lake City Public Library invites the public to a book talk with Minnesota author and local resident Dr. Steve Gardiner, who will talk about his most recent book, Historic Disasters of Southeastern Minnesota. This event takes place on Thursday, Nov. 10, at 6:30 p.m. at the Lake City Public...

Johnson’s Central Point talk covers Rest Island, Sea Wing, and more

Oct 12, 2022

The Lake City 150th Celebration Committee hosted Fred Johnson, a Red Wing native and historian, on Sunday afternoon at Hok-Si-La Park. Johnson shared his knowledge of the history of Central Point to 40-50 attendees. His story started with the early explorers to the area and carried on through...

Frederick Johnson to speak about Central Point history on Oct. 9

Oct 5, 2022

Frederick Johnson, a Red Wing native and teacher in the St. Paul school system, has an abiding interest in the history of the Goodhue County area. On Oct. 9 at Hok-Si-La Park, he’ll share some of the research he’s done on the area of Central Point and Rest Island. He’ll also talk about the 1890...

Dennis Robertson presents river history, music at library on Sept. 8

Aug 17, 2022

As part of Lake City’s 150th Anniversary Celebration, the Lake City Public Library invites the public to a fun and entertaining presentation led by local musician and historian Dennis Robertson. This event takes place on Thursday, Sept. 8, at 6:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public....

Updated: A look at early St. Mark’s history

Aug 10, 2022

Editor’s note: In conjunction with the Lake City 150th celebration, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church is celebrating its long history in Lake City with an event on Saturday, Aug. 13. [The event has been postponed.] The article below is condensed from a series of articles written by church member Nancy...

Trivial pursuits: Familiar U cheer’s Lake Pepin origin

Jul 20, 2022

The search engine Google has a feature called “Google Alerts” that lets you receive emails when its crawlers find new pages containing a search term you define. I have alerts set up for different terms related to Lake City. That’s how I learned about the other Lake Pepin. The alert was for a news...

New book chronicles three area disasters

Jun 15, 2022

Southeast Minnesota has experienced many powerful natural disasters, and Lake City author Steve Gardiner explores three of them in his most recent book Historic Disasters in Southeast Minnesota published by The History Press. Gardiner’s book looks at the wreck of the Sea Wing in 1890, the...