Minnesota History

Entrepreneurs shaped downtown more than 100 years ago near the Lake Bemidji waterfront. Members of the Bemidji Heritage Preservation are committed to sharing their stories.

Wildly fluctuating humidity levels at the Great Northern Depot building are damaging artifacts, including those unique to Northern Minnesota such as fur and birch bark.

Bemidji Area Reporter Larissa Donovan shares her surprising find about Babe's blue shade while wearing multiple hats as a Bemidji Jaycee, local journalist and amateur historian.

June 28 is Paul Bunyan Day. The lumberjack evokes romanticism about the state's logging past, which had lasting impacts on the state's environment and Indigenous people.

Fia Larsen will speak at the Beltrami County History Center at noon Thursday, May 23, 2024, on German prisoners of war, who worked in farms and forests from Faribault to Cass Lake.

Boese was a longtime contributor to KAXE. He’s the author of eight books dealing with local history in Itasca County, including "John C. Greenway and the Opening of the Western Mesabi" and "Papermakers: the Blandin Paper Company and Grand Rapids, Minnesota."

Paleontologists from the Science Museum of Minnesota visited with Bemidji State Beaver hockey fans, lobbying for the giant beaver's induction as a state fossil.

Writer Barry Babcock credits the Bonga family, descendants of an African slave, as being an important part of Northern Minnesota's history.

The Minnesota Historical Society and the Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium will partner for the event on Tuesday, Aug. 8.

John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater made a home in northeastern Minnesota in the early 20th century during a time of great changes in the region.