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The Northwest Minnesota Historical Center Collection Guide consists of brief descriptions of each manuscript collection at the Center.
The Northwest Minnesota Historical Center loans items to other libraries within Minnesota's archival to support researchers when this material is not available anywhere else than in archival holdings.
Other archive collections on the regional historic information on Minnesota including, economy, government, culture, state map and flag, major cities, points of interest, famous residents, state motto and symbols.
Mr. Eagan was born on December 4, 1943 in Rutland, Vermont. He grew up there in a staunchly Democrat and unionist household, although the community was firmly Republican in political outlook. Eagan attended Castleton Public School and Mt. St. Joseph’s Academy in Rutland.
The West Central Regional Development Commission [WCRDC] was established in 1973 to assist local governments in planning for common needs, cooperating for mutual benefits, and coordinating programs for sound area-wide development. The commission includes the Minnesota counties of Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Pope, Sterns, Traverse, and Wilkin.
The Women’s Athletic Club of Fargo-Moorhead [North Dakota-Minnesota] was organized in 1927 as a result of a separation of athletics from the Women’s Fine Arts Club. The purpose of this organization is the promotion of indoor and outdoor athletics for women. All women 18 years of age and over are eligible for membership. The organization disbanded in 1996.
Born in Hanska, Minnesota on May 8, 1903, Wilferd Anderson moved with his family to the Hitterdal, Minnesota area in 1908. Anderson’s father, H.V. Anderson, managed a grain elevator at Hitterdal until 1915 when he bought a farm in nearby Highland Grove. Wilferd Anderson worked on his father’s farm until 1931, when he married Violet Heigg and rented his own farm in Highland Grove. Subsequently buying the land, Anderson managed this farm until his retirement, raising grain and potatoes, and owning a small dairy herd. The Andersons were also active in Highland Grove community activities. Wilferd died in 1985.
The Moorhead Women’s Christian Temperance Union was organized in 1948. The WCTU grew from five women in 1948 to a membership of thirty-seven in 1960. The Moorhead WCTU is affiliated with the National WCTU and the National organization is part of the World Union which has a membership of seventy-seven countries.
The Western Minnesota Steam Thresher’s Reunion (WMSTR) was officially organized in 1954. But well before that year, individuals in the Rollag area were acting to preserve and restore old steam-powered farming equipment. N.B. Nelson, one of the most active of these individuals, proposed in 1940, that steam threshers be used one day each year so that “Old timers” could “see a steam engine work again.”
This chapter of the WCTU was organized in 1891, and was named the Scandinavian WCTU. The chapter contained members from both Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota. The chapter pursued the WCTU goals of educating the public on the dangers of alcohol and drugs.