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The Clay County Historical Society maintains a museum in the lower level of the Hjemkomst Center, 202 1st Ave N, Moorhead, Minnesota. Click here for a map and directions to the Hjemkomst Center. The Clay County Museum is free and open to the public! Hours are 10 am to 5 pm Mon-Sat, 12 to 5 pm Sun, 10 am to 9 pm Tues. 

We keep several galleries filled with changing exhibits on a wide variety of local history topics. Recent subjects have included the Red River of the North, 125 years of medical care in Clay County and the wheat industry.

A telephone lineman replaces
wires in Moorhead in 1894.

Mable Nelson picks up her mail in Tansem Township in the 1950s.

 

 

 

 

Currently we have on display:

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Keep In Touch: Communications technology in Clay County.  From letters to instant messaging, telegrams to cell phones, Clay County residents have used changing technologies to keep in touch. Try your hand at a manual typewriter, listen to 1940s radio broadcasts or have a look at a local TV station's coverage of the 1957 Fargo Tornado. There's lots to do!

 

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This page was last updated August 10, 2005 .
Report problems with this page to mark.peihl@ci.moorhead.mn.us.
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