Record of Bernard Berg’s burial, May 19, 1875. Berg was the first recorded person to be buried in Prairie Home Cemetery. Prairie Home and Riverside Cemetery Association Records, Northwest Minnesota Historical Center, Moorhead.
The first page of Prairie Home Cemetery’s articles of incorporation, 1875. Prairie Home and Riverside Cemetery Association Records, Northwest Minnesota Historical Center, Moorhead.
Aerial view of Prairie Home Cemetery in Moorhead with Concordia College in the background. Photograph by David Anderson, ca. 1939. David Anderson Photograph Collection, North Dakota State University Archives, Fargo.
Aerial view of Prairie Home Cemetery in Moorhead with Concordia College in the background. Photograph by David Anderson, ca. 1939. David Anderson Photograph Collection, North Dakota State University Archives, Fargo.
Prairie Home Cemetery, founded in 1875, is the oldest cemetery in Moorhead. Many of the city's settler colonists, such as Randolph M. Probstfield and Solomon G. Comstock, are buried there. It inspired the name of Garrison Keillor’s famous National Public Radio (NPR) program A Prairie Home Companion.
Map created by A Public History of 35W showing the boundaries of the Old Southside of Minneapolis as defined by Dr. Ernest Lloyd in “How Routing an Interstate Highway through South Minneapolis Disrupted an African-American Neighborhood,” PhD dissertation, Hamline University, 2013.
Participants in a Kiddies Parade, an annual event held during the summer in New Ulm, Minnesota. The children and parents make all of their own costumes and floats.