Resources

RESOURCES AVAILABLE IN THE GENEALOGY ROOM OF THE FILLMORE COUNTY HISTORY CENTER

 

Biographical Files
Church Histories
City Histories
Index of Veterans:

    Civil War
    Spanish American War
    World War I

Photograph and Portrait Files

Fillmore County Family Researcher Compilations 

 

FILLMORE COUNTY HISTORICAL VOLUMES:

 

History of Fillmore County, Minnesota with an Outline of her Resources, Advantgaes, and the Inducments She Offers to Those Seeking Homes in the WestBy J.W. Bishop, C.E.
Holley & Brown Printers, Republican Office
Chatfield, MN  1858

History of Fillmore County  1882
Including Explorers & Pioneers of Minnesota
& the Sioux Massacre of 1862.  By Rev. Edward D. Neill & Charles Bryan.

History of Fillmore County, Vol I-II  1912
By Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge.  Chicago, Ill. : H.C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.

History of Fillmore County
By Fillmore County Historical Society Members & Friends. Dallas, TX. 1984.

 

LOCAL HISTORY VOLUMES:

Canton Chronicles  by Marjorie Vail Black

Canton Treasured Memories

Canton, Minnesota 1879-1979

Chatfield Bicentennial Bugle

Chatfield Sesquicentennial 2003: The Spirit of the Valley

Chatfield: Our First 100 Years Centennial Souvenir 1953  [with index]

Chatfield: The Chosen Valley, Chatfield the Story of a Pioneer Town

Cherry Grove History

Fillmore Village: 101 Years by Matie Pulford [with index]

Fountain 125th Anniversary 1869-1994 “Pathways Past & Present” [with index]

Fountain Centennial 1869-1969 “Pages of the Past” [with index]

Granger: Granger-Florenceville Reunion 1990

Granger: Memoirs & History

Harmony: “Let’s Have Harmony” [with index]

Harmony: Homesteading on the Peace River by Orel Felland & Orville Severson

Harmony: informal history  [with index]

Remembering Harmony

Lanesboro Businessmen of 1930s The Depression Years

Lanesboro from its Beginning 1902

Lanesboro: 1869-1969 “River Valley Echoes” [with index]

Lanesboro: Historic Structures Locations Past & Present

Lanesboro: Images of America by Don Ward & Ted St. Mane

Lanesboro: It All Started with Buffalo Bill & White Beaver

Mabel: History of Newburg & Village of Mabel

Ostrander: 1891-1991 [with index]

Peterson Book 1974 [with index]

Pilot Mound History 2008

Preston 125th Anniversary: Coming Home [with index]

Preston: Images of America by Al Mathison

Prosper: As We Remember

Rushford 1854-1954 Centennial [with index]

Rushford I “History of the First Decade”

Rushford II “Railroad Boom Town”

Rushford III “Whiskey, Wheat, & Wagons”

Rushford IV “Industry, Enterprise, Medicine & Law”

Small Towns of Fillmore County: Amherst to Wilton Center

Spring Valley Centennial 1855-1955

Spring Valley History 1855-1980 [index only]

Spring Valley Old Timers

Spring Valley Sesquicentennial 1855-2005 “Tales of Our Town”

Spring Valley: The Laura Ingalls Wilder Connection 1890

Washington Community by Mrs. Rolf Hagen

Wykoff Centennial 1876-1976

Wykoff: A Journey into Yesterday by Matie Pulford [with index]

 LINKS:

 The Minnesota GenWeb Project

The Minnesota GenWeb Project

Fillmore County Genealogy Forum

Genealogy.com Forum

Fillmore County Message Board

Ancestry.com Message Board

Fillmore County Pensioners

1883 List of Pensioners posted at USGENWEB

History Museums in Minnesota

Directory of Historical Museums