Director Update – Winter 2025-2026 Membership Renewal Director’s Update – Fall 2025 Updates from End-O-Line Railroad Park and Museum Collections Committee Members Needed Parade of Trees What Led to the Lake Shetek Massacre? A Carved Treasure Returns A Look Back at the Slayton Library’s 85 Years Extra! Extra! Read All About It… Online (Soon)!” The Fulda Depot and the National Register of Historic Places The Poor Farm Buttermakers Baseball Preservation Tips: 100 Years of Education Cemetery Tour – Slide Show Small Grant Awarded for Collections Project Frank Thayer: An Architect’s Story by Rose Moudry Baseball of Murray County by Bill Bolin Dinehart Lecture: Railroads of Murray County Lunchbox Lecture – Murray County in the 1920s PowerPoint Draining the Great Oasis Self-Guided Cemetery Tour Take Home History — Free Educational Packets for Children Murray County Historical Museum has another great year! Walt Benton and his Music International Holiday Traditions Baseball featured on Postcards by PBS Mnopedia Story – Sweetman Catholic Colony Waning Years of the 1891 Murray County Courthouse Brought to Light A Tale of Twenty Typewriters: The Process of Deaccession Become A Member Dinehart Holt House Historic Structure Report Mnopedia Story – Chandler-Lake Wilson Tornado (1992) Mnopedia Story – Murray County Mnopedia Story – Minnesota’s First Female Sheriff – from Murray County Mnopedia Story – Murray County Fair New in the Collection Keeping the Collections: Deaccessioning

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Your donations help us care for historical collections, create engaging exhibits, and host programs like the Lunchbox Lecture Series and Front Porch Music Series. Every contribution, big or small, makes a lasting impact—and we are truly grateful for your support.

Become a Member
Membership is a great way to support the Historical Society and enjoy exclusive benefits. Annual memberships include our quarterly newsletter, free admission to Dinehart Holt House tours, and complimentary use of the museum’s research area.
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Monetary Donations
We gratefully accept financial contributions by mail or online.
To donate by mail, send checks to:
Murray County Historical Society
PO Box 61
Slayton, MN 56172
To donate online, visit our GiveMN page.

Collection Donations
We accept a wide variety of items including photographs, documents, clothing, and other artifacts related to Murray County. However, due to limited storage, items must meet certain criteria outlined in our collections policy. These include relevance to local history, physical condition, uniqueness, display potential, and whether the item comes with enough background information to ensure proper documentation.

Please do not mail items to the museum unless requested by staff. It’s important that we gather the full story behind each artifact, and we are unable to do that with unsolicited items sent without prior contact.

Thank you for helping preserve the history of Murray County. If you have any questions, please contact us at museum@murraycountymn.gov or call 507-836-6533.

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