Blue Earth County Historical Society — Local services in Mankato

This place is, hands down, without a doubt or half a moment's hesitation, the veritable Hope Diamond atop Mankato's shining diadem of hidden gems. Someday I hope to be able to afford admission to the bigger permanent exhibition hall upstairs. But even the temporary free admission exhibits downstairs are enough to make a visit well worth anybody's time who feels anything like a semblance of actually belonging to this place: Blue Earth County, in the US State of Minnesota, at the outer, southern bank of the slow (if not quite lazy) Minnesota River just downstream from its confluence with the faster and more turbulent Blue Earth River, where the two rivers conjoined into one flow Northward toward St Peter (intended to be Minnesota's Capitol before St Paul was chosen, instead) on the North American Continent just like the Rhine does at Köln on the European...

They have great displays and shoe you all about how the main street in Mankato used to look like. They did an excellent job with telling the history of the area. I enjoyed the minature model of the area and finding different things in it. I would recommend going if you are interested in learning about the history of Mankato. The staff is also very friendly and helpful. They answered...

Haven’t visited for a while. Always fun to see all the old memorabilia of Blue Earth County. If anyone has any old interesting stuff from years ago from Mankato please donate it to the historical society. They could use some new...