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

Research

Explore Our Research Collection

The Murray County Historical Society maintains an extensive research section within the Murray County Museum, offering a wide range of resources available to the public.

Available Resources Include:

Minnesota Digital Library:
The Minnesota Digital Library has digitized many images and documents from all across Minnesota. You can find Murray County’s entries in the library at this link: Murray County Historical Society | Minnesota Digital Library

Murray County Historical Society Digital Newspaper Archive
MCHS has digitized and made searchable early newspapers and made them freely available online for researchers. As we get funding, we will make available more editions of papers from around the county. If you wish to donate to the project, please let museum staff know or send a check with “digitizing newspapers” in the memo line. The archive can be found by following this link: Murray County Historical Society :: Home

Murray County Obituary Collection
With over 24,000 entries, our obituary collection is a valuable resource for genealogical research.
👉 Click here to access the online index.
If you find a name you’d like more information on, contact us for a free copy of the obituary. While there’s no charge, donations are always appreciated. Contributions can be made online via our GiveMN page or mailed to:
PO Box 61, Slayton, MN 56172

Topical Scrapbooks
A variety of locally compiled scrapbooks covering community events, organizations, and more.

County Commissioner Meeting Minutes
Available from 1872–2008 and 2013–2020.

Community-Contributed Resources
Our collection includes materials generously donated by local residents and members, such as:

    • Family histories and genealogies
    • Biographies and church records
    • Birth and marriage records
    • Plat maps and other historical documents

County Personal Property Tax Records Dating from 1901-1976, Excluding Years ending in 0 and 1

Visit us to explore the stories and records that shaped Murray County’s history!

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