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People on Main Street, Fulda

People on Main Street, Fulda, ca. 1905. Photograph by Dr. Emil King.

Murray County was established in 1857 and formally organized in 1872. Although Currie was the original county seat, the city of Slayton won a contentious battle for that title in 1890. Agricultural production has been (and continues to be in the twenty-first century) the county’s primary industry.

St. Anthony looking across Nicollet Island

St. Anthony looking across Nicollet Island at Winslow House, right, and Universalist Church, left, ca. 1860.

Tornado damage in St. Peter

Tornado damage in St. Peter, Minnesota, 1998. Image shows trees down and damage to a number of buildings.

Intersection of State Street and Monument Road

Intersection of State Street and Monument Road, Brook Park, August 7, 2017. Photograph by Alan W. Slacter.

Map of Brook Park (Pokegama)

Map of Brook Park (Pokegama) as it appeared ca. 1894. Published in Kelsey, Lucy, The September Holocaust (Minneapolis: A. Roper, 1894), 73.

Black and white photograph of Brook Park (Pokegama) after a catastrophic fire, ca. 1894.

Brook Park (Pokegama) after the fire

Brook Park (Pokegama) after a catastrophic fire, ca. 1894. The pool of water pictured (part of Pokegama Creek) protected townspeople who sought shelter there during the fire. Published in Wilkinson, Rev. William, Minnesota Forest Fires (Minneapolis: Wilkinson, 1895), 26.

Jewish Immigrants in Brook Park

The village of Brook Park supported a small but vital Jewish community for a brief period in the mid-1890s. That community dispersed after the Great Hinckley Fire destroyed the village on September 1, 1894, just months after many of the immigrants had arrived.

First Avenue & 7th Street Entry

In the late 1960s, Allan Fingerhut and Danny Stevens leased the old Greyhound Bus Depot in Downtown Minneapolis with the plan to open a rock club. Since then, First Avenue & 7th Street Entry has nurtured a diverse group of musicians, both local and national, and brought together people from various backgrounds. It remains one of the most highly regarded music nightclubs in the country.

Skyline of the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood

The skyline of the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis viewed from the north. At center are the Riverside Plaza complex of apartment buildings and Mixed Blood Theatre. Photograph by Ibrahim Hirsi, May 3, 2017.

Gale Family Library