Heritage Preservation

Local History News

Local History News: July 25, 2024

Field Note MNHS Local History Services recently checked the progress of the Hull Rehabilitation on the 1906 Steamboat "Minnehaha," part of the former...

Local History News: July 17, 2024

Field Note On April 19, Local History Services and Grants Office staff visited with staff and board of the North Star Museum of Boy Scouting and Girl...

Local History News: July 10, 2024

Field Note Staff and volunteers with Gammelgården Museum of Scandia received assistance from MNHS Local History Services and the Minnesota Alliance...

People standing and sitting around a large table in a depot museum.

Local History News: July 3, 2024

Field Note On June 18, over 20 staff, board members, and volunteers gathered at the Bulwer Junction Depot for a Ramsey County History Network...

Local History News: June 26, 2024

Field Note The Minnesota Historical Society was ready with our table display for the start of the Itasca Pride festival in Grand Rapids on June 23....

Local History News: June 19, 2024

Field Note Members of the West Central Minnesota Historical Association met in Granite Falls this spring. The historical organizations met to hear...

Local History News: June 12, 2024

Field Note On May 25, Rethos and the Cary family hosted a masonry repair class in the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood of St. Paul. Here, class instructor...

Local History News: June 5, 2024

Field Note On Saturday, June 1, staff from the Minnesota Historical Society was joined by the Pine City Area Historical Association and the Pine...

Local History News: May 29, 2024

Field Note In April, descendants of the African American Hastings community that originated in Hastings, gathered at the Dakota County Historical...

Local History News: May 22, 2024

Field Note On May 18, the Stearns History Museum and the Rainbow Wellness Collective hosted a class on historic masonry repair taught by John Beaty,...

Willmar HRAC Meeting-Staff and committee members

Local History News: May 15, 2024

Field Note The Grants Office and Local History Services attended the Spring meeting of the Historic Resources Advisory Committee (HRAC) on Friday,...

Local History News: May 8, 2024

Field Note Engagement meets outreach as Minnesota Historical Society staff attended the April 2024 Annual Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums...