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New Northfield Items Online from the Rice County Historical Society!
Take a minute to check out the 22 new items we've added to the Northfield History Collaborative from the Rice County Historical Society! Here are a few highlights.
Take a minute to check out the 22 new items we’ve added to the Northfield History Collaborative from the Rice County Historical Society! Here are a few highlights.
(If you're not familiar with the Northfield History Collaborative, learn more about it at our website.)
- Included are memo books from 1928 and 1929 that were passed out to college students, featuring advertisements from Northfield businesses. At the bottom of a city business directory is written “Try in Northfield first” — even then there was a “shop local” effort!
- Take a look at the Northfield of 1903 in this souvenir booklet. There are 34 pages of photographs of campus buildings, businesses, and homes of prominent Northfielders. Among my favorites are this view into the Carleton campus, which makes it easy to compare then and now, the immense brick Minnesota International Order of Odd Fellows Home, precursor to Three Links, and the old Washington School — the building before the one that become City Hall. Does anyone know where this electric light plant would have been?
Read more about the new additions here!
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