Koochiching Museums

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...

Mrs. Ham didn't feel well and a pain in her abdomen was stern, so a concerned Mr. Ham somehow relayed word to Intl'l Falls that a do

Good chance all locals have heard of it, some have traveled through it and for others it’s kind of a nearby area they wanna see even if...

In late January of 1913 Frank wrote his family in Indiana that he was making progress but since last summer he had been short of breath...

In 1912 Frank wrote to his brother Scott in Indiana that Winter had been temporary postponed by a splendid Fall. Frank had got his house...