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

This window from Saint Columba Church was one of the items that our collections committee discussed at their most recent meeting.

Collections Committee Members Needed

Written by Nicholas Demuth October 13, 2025October 13, 2025

Help Shape History: Join the Murray County Historical Society’s Collections Committee Did you know that there’s a dedicated committee that helps decide what artifacts are accepted into the Murray County […]