Did you know that the pontoon boat was invented in Stearns County? It was, right here in Richmond, Minnesota, in 1951! Its inventor was Ambrose Weeres.
Famed African-American contralto Marian Anderson gives concert in St. Cloud. Anderson is considered one of the most celebrated singers of the 20th Century.
The Stearns History Museum will be open for free this Sunday. They're hosting an open house in honor of their 75th Anniversary. Their hours are noon until 5:00 p.m.
Stearns county residents looking for traces of their ancestors might have luck at the Stearns History Museum. John Decker is the head of the research department. He says they have information on 10,000 to 15,000 family names.
Area kids are invited to help plant, and tend, a garden at the Stearns History Museum this summer. The "White House Garden Children's Project" will run Thursday mornings, May through August.
On this date in "Central Minnesota History" abolitionist and women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton visited St. Cloud. Learn all about her stop here.
March 27th, 1936 – Stearns County Historical Society organized. For seventy-five years the Stearns History Museum has been shaping (and re-shaping) itself in order to serve and supply local residents with tangible displays of our local histories.
March 24th, 1858 – Opponents of Jane Grey Swisshelm, St. Cloud’s first female publisher and feminist, broke into her newspaper office, The St. Cloud Visiter, and destroyed the press, throwing the pieces into the Mississippi River.
It was on this date 99 years ago that the girl scouts started. Now that first meeting was actually held down in Savannah, Georgia. But it didn't take too long before girls the in the St. Cloud area formed their own chapter of the Girl Scouts.
On this segment of our series "This Date In Central Minnesota History" we learn about St. Cloud native Gisela Goetten, who became Hollywood starlet June Marlowe. Marlowe died on this date in 1984.