RESEARCH
Our library and archive area is undergoing a major transformation to keep up with the increased demand for records and photographs. Hours of volunteer work have gone into making our library area a pleasant and, we hope, rewarding place for research.
This is just a sampling of what we have collected here at the Heritage Center. The building also houses a meeting room, offices, plus a large and secure storage area. In addition to the archives and genealogy center are work areas for the restoration of the museum collection.
McLeod
County Historical Society
Library Holdings- Partial Listing
Atlas and Farmers Directory of McLeod County, Minnesota, published by
The Farmer 1914
Atlas of McLeod County, Agricultural Committee, Glencoe, Minnesota
Atlas of McLeod County, Minnesota published by Midland Atlas Company,
1969
Atlas of McLeod County Minnesota, published by Thomas O. Nelson Co. 1948
Atlas of McLeod County Minnesota, published by Thomas O. Nelson Co. 1955
Atlas of McLeod County Minnesota, published by Thomas O. Nelson Co. 1963
Atlas of McLeod County Minnesota, compiled by Title Atlas Company 1979
Atlas of McLeod County Minnesota, compiled by Title Atlas Company 1999
Bergen Township Birth and Death Records
Brownton Centennial, 1857-1957 A Century of Achievement
Brownton Illustrated by R. H. Lueneburg 1893
Card Index File of Births, Deaths and Marriages
City of Glencoe, Minnesota Telephone Directory, 1979
Country Girl, The - The Early Years by Mildred Kovar
Crow River Wide Area Telephone Directory, Years 1990-91, 1991-92, 1994-95,
1999-2000
Farm & Home Plat & Directory, McLeod-Sibley Counties, MN 1984
Farm & Home Plat & Directory, McLeod County, MN 1999
Hale Township Birth and Death Records
History of Glencoe, A 1855-1975 by Mrs. Otto Shamla etal.
History of the City of Hutchinson From Founding to Present, edited by
Sophomore English Classes, published in 1936
Hutchinson City Directories, Years 1901, 1906, 1910, 1917, 1989, 1990,
1991, 1992, 1994, 1995
Hutchinson Legacy, The, 1976
Illustrated Album of Meeker and McLeod Counties- 1888
Jay Gould Million Dollar Gems by Della Gould Emmons
Lester Prairie Community 1886-1986 by Barbara Dammann
Little Crow by Gary Clayton Anderson
Lone Pine Legends by Ed Zeleznikar
McLeod County Landowners Index- 1880 by Mavis Kottke, unpublished
McLeod County Landowners Index- 1898 by Mavis Kottke, unpublished
McLeod County Landowners Index- 1910 by Mavis Kottke, unpublished
Minnesota Adjutant General's Report of 1866, Park Genealogical Books
Minnesota State Census 1865, Index for McLeod County, compiled by Mavis
Kottke
Minnesota State Census 1875, Index for McLeod County, compiled by Mavis
Kottke
Minnesota Territorial Census, 1850, edited by Patricia C. Harpole and
Mary D. Nagle
Newspaper Clippings Filed Alphabetically
Numerous Individual Family Histories
Obituaries- Selected Newspaper Clipping in Alphabetical Order
Official County Plat Book and Farmers' Directory of McLeod County Minnesota
Official County Plat Book and Farmers' Directory of Carver and McLeod
County Minnesota,1965
Official McLeod County, Minnesota Directory, 1973
Official McLeod County, Minnesota Directory, 1975
Official McLeod County, Minnesota Rural Resident Directory, 1976
Official McLeod County, Minnesota Rural Resident Directory, 1978
Official McLeod County, Minnesota Rural Resident Directory, 1979
Official McLeod County, Minnesota Rural Resident Directory, 1985
Plato Minnesota Centennial 1878-1978
Plat Book of McLeod County Minnesota 1948
Silver Lake, Minnesota 1889-1989 One Hundred Years of Life
Singing Yankees by Philip D. Jordan (a history of the Hutchinson Family
singers)
Standard Atlas of McLeod County Minnesota, 1898
Stewart Centennial 1878-1978 by the Stewart Study Committee
Telephone directories of McLeod County villages and cities for many years
Winsted Centennial 1887-1987
Winsted Township Birth Records
Winsted Township Death Records
MICROFILM LIBRARY
Minnesota State Census Schedules for McLeod County and some surrounding
counties for 1865, 1875, 1885, 1895, 1905
Naturalization records for McLeod County
Newspapers in McLeod County for certain years
Brownton Bulletin
Glencoe Advertiser
Glencoe Register
Hutchinson Enterprise
Hutchinson Independent Times
Hutchinson Leader
Lester Prairie News
McLeod County Enterprise
Silver Lake Leader
Stewart Tribune
Winsted Journal
U. S. Population Census Schedules for McLeod County and some surrounding
counties for 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920