The Renville County Seat Fight From “The history of Renville County, Minnesota, Volume 1”, H.C. Cooper Jr and Company, Chicago, 1916, compiled by Franklin Curtiss-Wedge, Pages 578 to 608 CHAPTER XXVI OFFICIAL TRANSACTIONS Story of the Doings of… Read More
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Posted: April 1, 2020 by Renville County Historical Society
The New Renville County Court House published in a Minnesota Newspaper circa July 1901
Editor’s Note: While organizing in the Research Library I located this newspaper clipping. See below for the letter submitted by Mr. Gilbert in 1974. The letter shows how much pride we can have in our hometowns and counties…. Read More
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Posted: March 20, 2020 by Renville County Historical Society
County Records Gone published in the Morton Enterprise on May 10, 1895
Arab like, the county officials have broken camp at Beaver Falls and pitched their tents in Olivia. They claim they had no right to transact business in Beaver Falls, after the dissolving of the injunction which held them… Read More
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Posted: March 20, 2020 by Renville County Historical Society
BIRD ISLAND MUST WIN! DELEUDA EST OLIVIA! published in the Renville County Union newspaper on October 5, 1900.
Editor’s Note: Deleuda est Olivia translation: Olivia must be destroyed! The Renville County Union was published in Bird Island and would later on November 20, 1903, would be named the Bird Island Union. To the People of Renville… Read More
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Posted: October 12, 2018 by Renville County Historical Society
The Renville County Seat Fight
The Renville County Seat Fight From “The history of Renville County, Minnesota, Volume 1”, H.C. Cooper Jr and Company, Chicago, 1916, compiled by Franklin Curtiss-Wedge, Pages 578 to 608 CHAPTER XXVI OFFICIAL TRANSACTIONS Story of the Doings of… Read More
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