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NEW!
The Clay County Historical Society has recently merged with the
Heritage-Hjemkomst Interpretive Center to form a new organization, the
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County. Further information to
come later. Welcome to the
Clay County Historical Society website! CCHS was formed in 1932
to "collect, preserve and disseminate the history of Clay County,
Minnesota." Over the last 60 plus years we've collected tens of
thousands of artifacts, photos and documents relating to the county's
past. We maintain a museum and research archives in the Hjemkomst Center
in Moorhead, Minnesota. If you're ever in Moorhead, stop by!
On this website you'll find:
- Our Photographs
on the Web! Seventy-five of our Moorhead photos are now
viewable through
Minnesota Reflections - an online collection of photos from
museums all over Minnesota. Click on "By Collection" and scroll to
Clay County Historical Society or search however you'd like. More to
come!
- Membership - how to become a member.
- Information about our Museum - what's on exhibit and how to find
us.
- Research/Genealogy page, with
online
materials.
- A Short History of Clay
County.
- Stories from Clay County's
Past: articles from our newsletter on
Moorhead's World War 2 POW camp, early aviatrix Florence
"Treetops" Klingensmith and more!
- A current Map of Clay County showing villages, townships and more.
- Multicultural Midwest
- Clay County is much more culturally diverse than it was 20 years
ago. Minnesota State University Moorhead professor Maureen Reed's
students have interviewed area leaders involved in this important change and
donated their research materials to CCHS' permanent collections.
Here's their website!
- County of Many
Cultures, Minnesota State University Moorhead professor Helen
Scheumaker's American Studies students researched CCHS' artifacts,
used our archives and created this web museum. Check it out!
- Our Bookstore, featuring: The Last One Hundred Years in
Moorhead, Minnesota, 1900-2000: A Century of Change.
- Links to other cool local history
sites!
-
Self-guided
tour of historic sites along the Red River of the North in
Fargo-Moorhead! You must have the free
Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view the
brochure. You can click
here
to download the free viewer.
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The Hjemkomst
Center, Moorhead MN, home of the Clay
County Historical Society.
Clay County Historical Society
202 1st Ave N
PO Box 501
Moorhead MN 56560
Phone: 218 299-5520
Fax: 218 299-5525
Email: mark.peihl@ci.moorhead.mn.us
Click on the map below for a current Clay County map.
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