History
Local history includes broken treaty, plunder
Mar 23, 2022
I’m a sentimental type. I live in a 1928 art deco house of wood from the old growth giants of the west. A nice touch for the 150th would be a Model A parked at this house built for the jovial and well-liked shoe merchant Abraham.
I reviewed my Abstract of Title. The first Anglicized name is...
Happy 150th birthday Lake City
Mar 2, 2022
An Incorporation Day event took place Saturday, Feb. 26 to mark the city’s 150th anniversary.
The event was mostly at Lincoln High School but it reverberated throughout town thanks to the bells that rang out at churches and elsewhere to mark the occasion.
Don Schwartz kicked off the festivities by...
Century-old message still rings true: For a strong Lake City, shop local
Feb 16, 2022
History already teaches and reveals many attributes to us that illustrate that “History does matter to us!” One quote notes that “each generation, typically a 20 year span, will reap what the former generation has sown.”
In today’s society with the political, economic, social challenges and...
LC Historical Society publishes postcard book
Aug 25, 2021
The Lake City Historical Society announces the publishing of “Greetings from Lake City, Minn.,” a 40 page booklet containing 70 vintage postcards and historic text.
Copies can be purchased for $22 at Lakeside Antiques and Lake Pepin Pearl Button Company.
People who want one mailed to them can...
West Albany stage cloth, Elgin electrical blueprint among museum’s newest acquisitions
Aug 18, 2021
The 2021 season celebrating 150 years at the Reads Landing School Museum brought out of state visitors from Wisconsin, Washington, Nevada, California, Arizona and South Dakota. They have all remarked about the wealth of information related to Wabasha County.
The quality of the Commemorative...
City presents Historic Preservation Commission certificates of merit
Jul 21, 2021
At the July 12 Lake City City Council meeting, Megan Smith, the city’s planning and community development director announced the recipients of four Lake City Historic Preservation Commission certificates of merit.
Each year the commission presents certificates “to people who really exemplify the...
City HPC honors Dennis Robertson
Jun 3, 2021
The Lake City Historic Preservation Commission had a surprise for Dennis Robertson on May 15. After Robertson finished his presentation on a table made from a cross section of a historic oak tree, Historic Preservation Commission member Katie Himanga presented him with a certificate of merit from...
Quist: Dedication evident in history essays bodes well for students’ futures
Jun 3, 2021
Last week the Lake City Historical Society, Greater Lake City Community Foundation (GLCCF), and high school officials presented $500 in cash prizes to the winning Lincoln High School contestants in the second annual “Why History Matters Essay Contest.”
Advanced Placement (AP) History students in...
Season opens at county history museum
Jun 3, 2021
May 22 and 23 marked the opening weekend at the Wabasha County Historical Society, Reads Landing School Museum.
The first visitors, Elizabeth and James Asher from Woodbury, Minn. were presented with the commemorative coin is a special blue velvet box.
The Wabasha County Historical Society was...
New table has deep local roots
May 20, 2021
After Saturday’s Arbor Day celebration in Patton Park, the tree festivities moved to the Lake City Chamber of Commerce, where a table made from a cookie – or crosscut – of one of the areas oldest trees was unveiled.
The burr oak tree stood off of South Oak Street near the Department of Resources...
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