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October 2020
Free Family Fun Day: A Haunting at the Museum
Join us for for a hauntingly good time at the history center for our Halloween themed Free Family Fun Day. There will be some sweet treats and fun activities for families. Also bring your costumes for even more fun. We will be having our activities outside and folloowing Minnesota Department of Health COVID-19 Guidelines , including the wearing of cloth masks and maintaining a 6-foot distance from non-family members. Free Family Fun Day is sponsored in part by Xcel Energy
Find out more »Walk into Local History: Lutheran Ladies Seminary
This presentation will take place in the Goodhue County History Center's conference room with social distancing in place for all participants. There is a max of 10 participants for each session. We will also be offering this program digitally over the video conference app Zoom. Explore the former grounds of the Lutheran Ladies Seminary, a center of music, culture, and higher education in Red Wing until it burned down in 1920. The program includes a 60-minute presentation at the Goodhue…
Find out more »Walk into Local History: Lutheran Ladies Seminary
This presentation will take place in the Goodhue County History Center's conference room with social distancing in place for all participants. There is a max of 10 participants for each session. We will also be offering this program digitally over the video conference app Zoom. Explore the former grounds of the Lutheran Ladies Seminary, a center of music, culture, and higher education in Red Wing until it burned down in 1920. The program includes a 60-minute presentation at the Goodhue…
Find out more »When Wheat Was King
Industrious Cannon Valley millers established the state’s first flour milling center along the Cannon River and its tributaries. It all began with an abundance of natural resources – fertile black soil, rapidly-flowing creeks and rivers, Big Woods timber, and plenty of native limestone. When these assets were harnessed by Cannon Valley millers, the outcome changed history. Join us to learn about Goodhue County flour mills when wheat was king! The presenter is Jeff Jarvis, a writer, artist and historian. Jeff…
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