Above: Franklin High School The Atom 1962 yearbook which is a part of the Museum’s Yearbook Collection. Franklin School is an upcoming exhibit that will be in the Museum through July 15 and taken to the 2025 Renville County Fair August 6-9. 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. RCHS is also looking for the school newsletters (list of ones we have are below).

The Renville County Historical Society needs your help to add to the Research Library’s Yearbook & School Newspaper 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 director@renvillecountyhistory.com 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.

That is okay if you are not ready to part with your yearbook. 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 the 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: 1950 (digital copy only), 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)

Franklin Atomite: 1948: Oct 6, Oct 20, Nov 3, Nov 17, Dec 1, Dec 15 1949: Jan 19, Feb 2, Feb 16, Mar 2, Mar 16 (cover only), Mar 30 1950: Oct 16, Nov 13, Dec 18 1951: Jan 29, Feb 26, Apr 23, May 28 1952: NO COPIES 1953: NO COPIES 1954: NO COPIES 1955: Feb 10, Apr 28, May, Oct 27, Nov 17, Dec 22 1956: Jan 26, Feb 23, Mar 22, May 2, Nov 16, Dec 19 1957: May 22 1958: Feb 28
1959: Jan 23, Mar 20, Apr 30, May 22, Oct 21, Dec 18 1960: Jan 29, Mar 30

Franklin Tiger Beat: NO COPIES

Gibbon – Fairfax – Winthrop (GFW): No Yearbooks

Hector High School: 1915

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 Blue & Gold School Newsletter:
1950: May 1953: Sep, Nov, Dec 1954: Jan, Feb & Mar, Apr, May, FINAL, Oct 29, Dec 1955: No Month, Feb, Apr, May, Oct, Nov, Dec 1956: Jan, Feb, Mar & April, May, Oct, Nov, Dec 1957: Jan, Feb, Mar & Apr, May, Sep, Dec 1958: Jan, Feb & Mar, Apr, May, Sep, Oct 27, Dec 19 1959: Jan 30, Mar 19, Feb 25, Apr 24, May, Sep, Dec 1960: No Month, Jan, May, Oct 1961: No Month, Jan, Feb, Sep
1962: No Date, May 1963: Jan, May, Nov, Sep, Oct, Dec 1964: No Month, Jan, Feb, Oct, Dec 1965: Mar, Apr, Sep, Dec 1966: Feb, Mar, Oct 1967: Feb, Oct, Nov 1968: No Month, Feb, Mar 1969: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Sep 1970: No Month, Jan 1971: No Month 1974: No Month
1985: May (LAST GRADUATION FOR MORTON SCHOOL)

Morton Smoke Signals School Newsletter: 1972: Feb 1973: Mar, Apr 6 1974: Jan 18, May 1, Sep 13, Sep 27, Dec, Dec 19 1975: Jan 17, Feb 7, Mar 21, May 1, May 5, Sep 16, Oct, Oct 2 1976: Feb, Apr, Apr 23, May, May 17 1977: Mar, Mar 29, May, May 2 1978: Sep 29 1979: Mar, Sep, Oct 30, Nov, Dec 21 1980: Jan 31, Feb, Mar 28 1985: Feb

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 School Newsletter: 1958

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