Koochiching Museums

Violet and son Wesley came down with typhoid fever, twenty-one year old Violet was pregnant with her third child. Violet didn’t know...

Orrah Jr. was so diminutive at birth that he fit in the palm of his father’s hand, hands so tiny they were translucent. Orrah and Violet...

George and Mary Loman were pioneers but very progressive for their means and how they operated in those early days without funds was...

56654 became their zip code and they indeed earned it. The folks who talked about George used reverential tones, held in high esteem by...

When against the wishes of her father Violet eloped with Orrah Kielczewski she never dreamed that she would be living off the land and...

Violet was born July 9th. 1903. It would seem to be an indication of her family’s financial straits when as a 6 years old she floundered...

Ol’ Joe was appreciative when real horsepower was replaced by tractors, cars, trucks, boat motors and other gasoline contrivances but in...

He wasn’t always Ol’ Joe, but for the rest of us it seemed incongruous that he was ever any age other than he was. Joe was born on the...

We're all kind of smug about history and our generations place in it, but how about the “Mound Builders”? They were here before the rest...

So you’re driving down either Minnesota State Highway 71 or 72 and you see ditches similar to small canals that run vertical to the...