Minnesota History
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...
State marks 100th anniversary of mob lynchings in Duluth
Jun 17, 2020
On June 15, Gov. Tim Walz visited the memorial to Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie, three black circus workers lynched by a mob in Duluth on that day 100 years earlier.
The men and three others, also black, had been arrested and accused of the rape of an 18-year-old woman (A doctor’s...
Free event celebrates state's birthday
May 3, 2017
The Goodhue County History Center invites everyone to spend the afternoon on Sunday, May 7 celebrating Minnesota’s 159th birthday at its Free Family Fun Day.
On May 11, 1858 the “Land of 10,000 Lakes” entered the Union as the 32nd state. People can stop by the History Center to celebrate and...
Author to speak at Lake City Public Library
Jul 28, 2016
Minnesota Author Colin Mustful will speak at the Lake City Public Library on Thursday, Aug. 4, at 6:30 p.m. Mustful, an author and historian specializing in the historical relationship between North American native peoples and europeans, is the author of three novels about Minnesota frontier...
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