The Marion Ross Performing Arts Center (originally used as a firemen’s hall and Masonic lodge) at 147 North Broadway Avenue, Albert Lea. Photograph by Titian Butash, July 30, 2024.
Mark Twain’s early morning train out of Crookston on July 30, 1895, was delayed by forty-five minutes, leaving him annoyed. He used that extra time to board a baggage truck and have his manager, J. B. Pond, push him up and down the platform.
Marker at the burial site of J. W. Lynde (killed during the US–Dakota War of 1862) erected by the Minnesota Valley Historical Society in 1898. Photo by K. Linzmeier, July 30, 2013.
Marker erected at the site of Forbes' trading post (important before and during the US–Dakota War of 1862) by the Minnesota Valley Historical Society in 1898. Photo by K. Linzmeier, July 30, 2013.
Marker at the site of Roberts' trading post (used before and during the US–Dakota War of 1862) erected by the Minnesota Valley Historical Society in 1898. Photo by K. Linzmeier, July 30, 2013.