Above: Hector High School Hectorian 1961 yearbook. Hector is the 2024/2025 featured city for the Main Museum. This exhibit will be taken to the 2025 Renville County Fair in Bird Island.

The Renville County Historical Society needs your help to add to the Research Library’s Yearbook Collection. The list below shows the current copies we have in the Research Library. If you have yearbooks to donate, please contact Nicole at the Museum [email protected] or 507-697-6147! Yearbooks, plat books, and phone books are key pieces of preserving the history of who lived in the area and when.

If you are not ready to part with your yearbook, that is okay. We can scan it and return it to you. Many of the yearbooks have been scanned into searchable PDFs.

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Yearbooks in Research Library

Bird Island – St. Mary’s: 1962-1963

Bird Island Panthers: 1955-1959, 1962, 1965-1968

Bird Island – Lake Lillian: 1978, 1981, 1983-1984, 1986-1989

BOLD High School: 1992-1995, 2000-2003

Buffalo Lake Breezette: 1948 – 1951, 1953, 1955 – 1956

Buffalo Lake The Laker: 1957-1959, 1961 – 1966, 1968 – 1973, 1977 – 1987

Buffalo Lake – Hector: 1988-1994, 1995 (2); 1996 – 2000, 2004 – 2005, 2007

Buffalo Lake – Hector Elementary: year unknown

Buffalo Lake – Hector – Stewart Hoof Prints (BLHS): 1988 – 1994, 1996 – 2008, 2010 – 2012, 2014 – 2015, 2019

Cedar Mountain: 1984, 2000 – 2003, 2016

Danube Falcons: 1951 – 1952, 1954 – 1955, 1957, 1977 – 1979

Fairfax Eagles: 1917, 1923, 1956 – 1957, 1959, 1962, 1965 (2), 1970, 1981-1983

Franklin Atoms: 1958-1960, 1963 – 1966, 1969 (2), 1970, 1971 (3); 1972 (3); 1973 (2); 1974 (3); 1975 (3); 1976 (4); 1977 (2); 1978 (2); 1979 (2); 1980-1982; 1983 (2)

Gibbon – Fairfax – Winthrop (GFW): No Yearbooks

Hector Hectorian: 1948, 1952 – 1959, 1961 – 1964, 1966, 1975, 1979 – 1987

Morton Tomahawk: 1907, 1915, 1917, 1938, 1940, 1944 (2), 1946 (2), 1948, 1954, 1958 (2), 1960-1961, 1963, 1964 (2), 1966-1967, 1968 (2), 1969 (3), 1970 (2), 1971 (2), 1972 (2), 1973 (2), 1974-1979, 1980 (3), 1981, 1982 (3), 1983-1985. 1985 was the last year Morton had a graduating class.

Morton Elementary School: 1995 (last year Morton had an elementary school)

Olivia Crucible: 1912, 1916, 1917

Olivia High School: 1924, 1949-1951, 1957-1959, 1962 (O-HI-AN), 1964-1965, 1967 (Wildcats continue until school is consolidated)

Redwood Valley Cardinals: 1984-1985

Renville County West (RCW): No Yearbooks

Renville the Renvillon: 1939, 1941 – 1944, 1947, 1949, 1950 – 1954, 1964 – 1978, 1984

Sacred Heart Viking: 1967 – 1972

Saint Mary’s – Bird Island The Marion: 1961 – 1963, 1965

Saint Mary’s – Bird Island The Blue Mantle: 1958

Please contact Nicole at 507-697-6147 if you can add to the yearbook collection!