Explore Murray County with the History Hunt! Updates from the Fulda Heritage Society Collection Spotlight: Currie’s Bicentennial Celebration Wheel-Herald Photos Update Hobos and Their Code Director Update – Summer 2026 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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Wheel Herald Mystery Photo at the Museum

Wheel-Herald Photos Update

Written by Nicholas Demuth

By Colleen Gengler If you’ve visited the museum anytime in the last couple of years, you’ve likely heard about the many Wheel-Herald photographs that were donated to the Murray County Historical Society. Volunteers have already done a tremendous amount of work identifying the people, places and events pictured in the collection. But there are still […]

Infographic of the hobo codes used for communication

Hobos and Their Code

Written by Nicholas Demuth

By Nick Demuth There is a common belief among pop history enthusiasts that hobos had their own secret code that all the hobos knew and used that code to leave messages for each other when arriving at a town. Allegedly, the next hobo would see a sign written on the ground or on a fence […]

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