Water Wheel advertising brochure

Water Wheel advertising brochure

Advertising brochure for the Sellner Water Wheel, 1923. Used with the permission of Rice County Historical Society. Sellner Collection, Rice County Historical Society, Faribault. Used with the permission of Rice County Historical Society.

Water Toboggan Slide advertising brochure

Water Toboggan Slide advertising brochure

Cover of the advertising brochure for the Sellner Water Toboggan Slide, 1923. Sellner Collection, Rice County Historical Society, Faribault. Used with the permission of Rice County Historical Society.

Tilt-A-Whirl at the Minnesota State Fair

Tilt-A-Whirl at the Minnesota State Fair

Tilt-A-Whirl at the Minnesota State Fair, 1969. Photograph Collection, Minnesota State Fair Archives, Falcon Heights. Used with the permission of the Minnesota State Fair Archives.

Sellner Manufacturing Company

On April 24, 1926, Herbert W. Sellner filed an application with the United States Patent Office for an “Amusement Device” designed for parks and resorts. His goal was to provide riders with “pleasurable and unexpected sensations” by swinging, snapping, and rotating them in an unpredictable pattern. He named his creation the Tilt-A-Whirl, and it became the most popular ride made by his Faribault-based Sellner Manufacturing Company.

This Day in Minnesota History

April 1, 1984

Future Governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura and Mr. Saito take on Baron Von Raschke and The Crusher in front of 18,000 fans at Chicago Stadium in an American Wrestling Association-sanctioned match-up. Ventura and Saito win by disqualification.

Sherds of Fox Lake-type ceramics

Sherds of Fox Lake-type ceramics

Pottery sherds of the Fox Lake ceramic-ware type—the same type found at Mountain County Park in 1976. The sherds pictured here were excavated in northern Iowa in 2015. From M. A. Hoofnagle’s “Bits and Pieces: A Case for Holistic Analysis in the Study of Ceramic Archaeology” (honors thesis, University of Iowa, Spring 2017).

Map of Mississippian cultures

Map of Mississippian cultures

A map showing the extents of Mississippian and Mississippian-influenced cultures, including the and Oneota peoples. Photograph by Herb Roe. CC BY-SA 3.0.

View of old "mountain" island, Mountain Lake

Mountain County Park

Mountain County Park in Cottonwood County, July 2, 2014. Photograph by Wikimedia Comons user McGhiever. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mountain County Park and Historic Site

Cottonwood County’s now-dry Mountain Lake was the site of Indigenous villages and encampments over the course of 3,000 years. The area has provided clues—some of the oldest evidence of human habitation in present-day Minnesota—about the lives of a group of people who remained relatively isolated from Upper Mississippi trade networks. In the 1970s, the site was developed into a public park operated by Cottonwood County.

Map of county parks in Cottonwood County

Map of county parks in Cottonwood County

Map of county parks in Cottonwood County, undated. Talcot Lake Park is at the lower left. Provided by and used with the permission of the Cottonwood County Historical Society.

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