Heritage Preservation

Local History News

Local History News: August 21, 2024

Field Note MNHS' Grants Office was out at Brookdale Library in Brooklyn Center, MN for a Grant Information Session on the new grant program,...

Local History News: August 14, 2024

Field Note On Saturday, August 10, the Minnesota Historical Society along with the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, attended the...

Local History News: August 7, 2024

Field Note Local History Services staff was at the grand reopening of the City of Plymouth History Center. The museum underwent a remarkable...

Local History News: July 31, 2024

Field Note MNHS staff from the Grants Office and Local History Services conducted a site visit on July 25, 2024 to the historic Sandstone School in...

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...