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The History Center of Olmsted County (HCOC) is a non-profit organization located in Rochester, Minnesota, dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of Olmsted County. Founded in 1926 as the Olmsted County Historical Society.
Rochester: Tudor Revival estate built 1917–1924 for pivotal Mayo Clinic doctor and architect Henry Stanley Plummer (1874–1936). [21] Also a contributing property to the Pill Hill Residential Historic District. [19] Now a city park and event center. [22] 18: Rochester Armory: Rochester Armory: December 2, 1980 : 121 North Broadway
Reservation name Tribe Counties Map Population [Note 1] Notes Bois Forte Indian Reservation: Ojibwe: Itasca, Koochiching, and St. Louis: 984 Fond du Lac Indian Reservation: Ojibwe ...
The Rochester Art Center is a contemporary arts center in Rochester, Minnesota, United States. The Center offers exhibitions of local, national and international art, as well as tours, classes, and workshops. Founded in 1946, the Center opened in its current location in 2004. [1]
Aug. 14—Dear Answer Man: The Mazeppa Area Historical Society just received a scrapbook with pictures of Old and New Rochester. Some have numbers on them, example: "252nd of a Series — Old and ...
G Company of the 9th Minnesota Infantry Regiment [4] had a large component of bi-racial White Earth Chippewa. [5] Their military service was the result of underhand tactics, Chippewa historians Julia Spears and William Warren report: A group of white citizens of Crow Wing enrolled bi-racial Chippewa as substitutes to fight in their place, as allowed by the Enrollment Act, thus avoiding being ...
Pill Hill is a National Register of Historic Places district in Rochester, Minnesota. The residential neighborhood encompasses almost 150 houses built on a limestone bluff, predominantly for staff of the nearby Mayo Clinic, which led to the name. Its period of significance is between 1885-1937, with the vast majority of the homes being ...
Mendota – mispronunciation of Dakota Bdóte, the confluence of the Minnesota River and Mississippi River, which is the Dakota religious center of the universe Mendota Heights; Minneapolis – from Dakota mníȟaȟa (lit. ' waterfall ') and the Greek language suffix opolis (city) Minnehaha. Minnehaha Creek; Minnehaha Falls; Minneiska; Minneola ...