Project bids are being taken for grant funded work on the Dinehart Holt House in Slayton, MN. Stonework, painting, carpentry. Bidding Documents may be reviewed at www.QuestCDN.com, Quest Project #7620347. Bid Documents may be downloaded for a non-refundable charge of $15. Planholders that have downloaded the documents from QuestCDN will be notified via email as […]
The 2020-2021 Lunchbox Lecture Series will look a little different this year–the lectures will be available here on our website for you to enjoy at home so we can continue to keep our community members safe! This month’s lecture is an adaptation of the Murray County Historical Society’s new exhibit “A Decade of Change: Murray […]
In October we were informed that Murray County in conjunction with the Murray County Historical Society had been awarded a large Minnesota Historical & Cultural Heritage grant from the Minnesota Historical Society for work on the Dinehart Holt House. Along with that wonderful news, our friends at End-o-Line Railroad Park and Museum were also awarded […]
The 2020-2021 Lunchbox Lecture Series will look a little different this year–the lectures will be available here on our website for you to enjoy at home so we can continue to keep our community members safe! This month’s lecture presented by Janet Timmerman is Draining the Great Oasis: An Environmental History. The story of the […]
The 2020-2021 Lunchbox Lecture Series will look a little different this year–the lectures will be available here on our website for you to enjoy at home so we can continue to keep our community members safe! This month’s lecture is an adaptation of the 2020 Murray County Cemetery Tour. This tour focuses on the Bethany […]
Every Stone Tells a Story: Cemetery Tour Features the Lives of Locals. The Murray County Historical Society invites you to set aside time in your schedule to learn some of the unique stories found in the county’s cemeteries. From Friday October 2 through Monday October 12 a self-guided tour of gravestones in three of the […]
We are living in a unique era of American history. Future historians, and our own descendants, will want to know how this pandemic affected the lives of rural people. In an effort to collect as many viewpoints, experiences, and stories as possible about how Covid-19 has affected county residents, we are calling on everyone, young […]
School is over for the year but there is still plenty of time to learn over the summer! The Murray County Museum has created two educational history packets for young children connected to Murray County history! There is a packet for children in Kindergarten through 2nd grade and one for children in 3rd to 4th […]
