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

Pictured here in 1944 is the old Worthmore Creamery building. Built in 1941, it housed the creamery and produce locker until 1958, when the city took it over for use as a municipal building. It housed the city offices, municipal liquor store, and library. Photo from the Nobles County Historical Society Archives.

A Look Back at the Slayton Library’s 85 Years

Written by Christy Riley July 25, 2025July 25, 2025

By Colleen Gengler This year marks the 85th anniversary of the Slayton Public Library. In 1940, the Monday Study Club sponsored and organized the library. It was initially run by […]