Fat stock show at the Nobles County Fair Grounds in Worthington Minnesota. Entries are lined up on the race track in front of the judging booth. Line of horses and cattle. Date written on back of the photograph indicates it was taken in 1909.
Mrs. Jonas (Elizabeth) Moberg's funeral in 1908. The house was located west of Lake Bella. View includes the horse drawn hearse and mourners including: Rubin Nystrom, Linden Moberg, Oliver Thompson, August Anderson, John Blixt, Hans Nystrom, Edwin Moberg, Mrs. Nels (Hilda) Moberg, Kristine Moberg, Nels Mobery, and baby Mildred Moberg.
Interior of the Loveless Grocery and Bakery at 320 10th Street Worthington, Minnesota. The people in the photograph are from left to right: Earl Barkelew, Nellie Crever, William Loveless, Fred Sterling and Mr. Loveless (baker)
A Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota, with a group of people sitting in chairs and on the ground between rows of tents. 511
Chautauqua celebration in Chautauqua Park in Worthington, Minnesota. A row of tents with a family gathered in from of one, having a picnic. Some of the people are: Anna Hedberg, Loren Clark, Nancy Clark, Mrs. Webster and Belle Webster.
Chautauqua Celebration in Chautauqua Park, Worthington, Minnesota. A row of tents with a family gathered in from of one, some sitting in a hammock tied between two trees.
Steam engine with a passenger car and passengers on the Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Omaha Railroad line. Passengers include Charles Smallwood, Jim Messer, Edward Carnes the road master, Fred Parker and Hannah Parker.
The Rushmore Cornet Band in uniform about 1905. Left to right: Henry Thompson, Band Director Rushmore depot agent, Albene Dahlberg, Chris Hanson, Chas Morton, Steve Fagerness, Chris Fagerness, E.G. Edwards, sitting on left Arthur Thompson and on right Clayton Bedford
The Reverend Edwin W. Lanham in foreground on the shore of Lake Okabena. Lanham was the pastor at the Worthington Westminster Presbyterian Church from 1904 to 1907. In the background is a sailboat on Okabena Lake.
Exterior of the P. Geyermann and Son dry good store in Brewster, Minnesota. Standing on the boardwalk in front of the store are Edward, Peter Sr. and Rudolph Geyermann
Group photograph of the 1905 Worthington, Minnesota, High School football team taken on the steps of the Castle School. Top row left to right: 1. Outhwaite, Kumbler 2. Lloyd Patterson, 3. Ivan Pettit, 4. Supt. Edwards, 5. Coach Chas Haggard, second row 6. Art Newman, 7. Sterling Lawton, 8. John Ramage, 9. Dwight Ludlow, Third row 10. Harry Bloom, 11. Ray Wolven, 12. Will Loveless, 13. James Sowels, Front row, 14. Floyd Voak, 15. Orrie Oberman, 16. Oakley Tripp, 17. Eddie Pannell, 18. Harry Gray, 19. Edward Lawton
Children playing on a bench in the park with A.T. Latta Dry Goods painted on it. Small dog and tents also in the photograph. Photograph was taken during a Chautauqua celebration.
Tent set up in Chautauqua Park Worthington, Minnesota, with Go To A.T. Latta for Dry Goods. On back Chautauqua grounds on Lake Okabena, Worthington, Minn. - Boy buying taffy is my cousin Lyle Buchan. Little boy is Chester B. His mother Aunt Bella with knob on top. About 1905
10th Street and FourthAvenue in Worthington, Minnesota. Buildings, Hub Mercantile run by Gus Swanberg and Dave Anderson, E. L. Schwartz, Citizens Bank.
Lake Okabena shore line along Lake Street, Worthington, Minnesota, showing waves crashing onto the shore. Railroad tracks along the shore. Dated 12 September 1903
Flood waters over flowing Lake Okabena at Lake Street and 2nd Avenue in Worthington. Railroad tracks are getting washed away. Mann House visible across the lake.
Winter scene looking south towards Okabena Lake from the top of the courthouse. On back of the photograph: "Foreground - Top of Jail, Across street - Tom Palmer home (later owned by French family)."
C. L. Colman Lumber Company building on 10th Street and Second Avenue Worthington, Minnesota. Worthington Transfer Company was located in the same building.
Charley Cedarblade and his daughter Myrtle in a horse and buggy parked 3rd Avenue by the courthouse square. This was right in front of Buchan's Photograph Studio on 3rd Avenue, Worthington, Minnesota. Courthouse and 10th street are visible in the background.
Interior of the Hubbard Horstman Store in Bigelow, Minnesota, around the turn of the century. Henry Horstman, Mr. M.J. Hubbard and Bessie Hubaard who married Albert Kepha later are in the photograph.
Henry H. Read and a unknown man with stringers of fish taken from Summit Lake in Nobles County. Henry H. Read, the original owner of a part of the village site of Reading in Nobles County for whom the village was named.
Henry H. Read and a unknown man with stringers of fish taken from Summit Lake in Nobles County. Henry H. Read, the original owner of a part of the village site of Reading in Nobles County for whom the village was named.
The G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Hall on 10th Street Worthington, Minnesota. Dr. J. R. Conway had a dentist office in the building. George W. Wilson, Attorney and the Minnesota Loan and Investment Company in the building to the right. To the left is the ElectroMedical Institute.
Erastus Church with a vegetable wagon and a white horse. Erastus Church was a colorful Worthington character who peddled vegetables, picked up junk and distinguished himself by having a street named in his honor, because he lived on that street. The photograph is dated September 26, 1900. Poster in the window promotes the candidacy of William McKinley over William Jennings Bryan. It proclaims: "McKinley was right in 1896." Note: This information taken from a newspaper article with same picture, in the Worthington Centennial July 22, 1972. We think it is a Buchan photo but don't know for sure.
Train engine number 1 of the Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Omaha Railroad . Guy Otis an engineer from Bigelow is one of the men in the photograph.
Rushmore Cornet Band in uniform standing in the middle of 3rd Avenue, just west of 10th Street looking east. Taken the same day as photograph # 1983.008.0001.PC. Band members include: E. G. Edwards, Chris Fagerness, Steven Fagerness, Chas. Morton, Chris Hanson, Albene Dahlberg, Henry Thompson, Clayton Bedford, and George Thompson.
Two hitches of horses doing field work on the D. M. Holland farm four miles north east of Worthington in the south east quarter section 26 of Elk Township. On the far right of the photograph is the bridge over Elk Creek. The farm site is in the background with three men, two dogs and eight horses and mules by the farm implements.
First automobile in Nobles County was the chain driven two cylinder chugger in this photograph. It was built by Peter Spartz of Wilmont in 1900. Seated in the car, left to right are: John, Henry, Peter and William Spartz.
View of Okabena Lake with a sail boat of the beach and the Idle Wild Pavilion. On the front of the photograph written in blue ink: "Idlewild Pavilion - Front of 3rd Ave. before Rock Island Tracks were laid before 1900." At the top of the photograph is written, "1899" in blue ink.
Scene looking north from the courthouse. Someone wrote on front of the photo and on the back: "1. Methodist Church, corner of 4th Ave. & 9th St. 2. M. P. Mann house 3. M. L. Miller house built in 1893."
A man standing on the shore of Okabena Lake in Worthington, Minnesota. In the background is the smoke stack for the power plant. On back of the photograph someone wrote: "Okabena Lake Shore before Rock Island tracks were laid. The Idle Wild Pavilion Sept. 13, 1899"
The Worthington, Minnesota, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Omaha Railroad train depot - station with the Spanish American Troops loading the train.
Exterior view of the Mann Home in fall or winter, with no leaves on the trees. A group of people is posed on the porch and lawn, one woman has a bicycle. On back in ink: "Mrs. Coughray, The Mann Home which was last house in town, about where Heiberg's now live. James Mott."
Ice storm damage including ice covered trees and wires. Five men in the photograph serving the ice covered trees. 1896 ice storm damage in Worthington, Minnesota.
Ice storm damage including ice covered trees and wires. House, yard and out buildings. Street lighting hanging overhead. We believe it is from Worthington, Minnesota.
The Smallwood family in the front yard of their house at 1543 Okabena Street on the corner of Grand Avenue in Worthington, Minnesota. Charlie, his wife Florence and Anna Larson on the steps. Jet Smallwood on a bicycle, Mary Smallwood (Cashels ) holding a pony hooked to a buggy. Another pony grazing in the front yard, dog on the steps. Charlie's full name was Charles Joseph James Smallwood (C.J.) (1858/61-1908) his wife was Florence Clark Moulton Smallwood (1859-1921), son Justin Thomas (J. T.) Smallwood, M.D. (1882/84-1933) aka Jet; daughter Mary (Mame or Mamie) Emmaline Smallwood Cashel (1888-1931).
Ole Anderson and Company, Publishers of County Gazetteers
Date Created:
1895
Description:
A 204 page paperbound booklet from 1895 containing historical facts of each individual town and township in Nobles County. It includes advertisements and the names of local businesses and their proprietors. Also listed are physicians and county officers as well as the names of county residents grouped by city or township.
Street scene with a boardwalk and bandstand. This is the courthouse square in Worthington with the original wood courthouse visible in the background behind the bandstand. This is the intersection of 10th Street and 3rd Avenue looking west toward the lake.
Fourth Avenue looking north east from the top of the water tower. Visible is the Worthington Minnesota "new" Castle School and the ""old"" Octagonal School, Dayton House, 4th Ave. Buchan photo, written in ink on front ""August 1892""
View from the Nobles County Fairgrounds when it was on the south side of the lake on the Ludlow farm. View looking north east across Okabena Lake towards Worthington. Large crowd gathered with their horses and buggies.
The first water and electric plant in Worthington was located on the shores of Lake Okabena. A typewritten sticker on the back of the photograph reads: "Worthington, Minnesota First Water and Electric Plant. (Mrs. Anna Cory) Water system installed in 1891 Electric plant installed in 1895 First lights December 10. First patronage 300 lights."
Threshing at the Mc Keever Farm six miles east of Worthington, Minnesota. W. P. Jenkins sitting in a horse drawn buggy between stacks of straw. A steam engine is running the thresher.
Exterior view of the original home of the Peter Thompson Family at 1201 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street). House was built around 1874. The house then went to Nellie Parker (daughter), then to her daughters Natalie Imes and Marjorie Chambers.
Panoramic photograph showing Fourth Avenue looking east from the top of the water tower. You can see the Dayton House, Castle and Octagonal School buildings.
A photo of Lake Okabena taken in the 1890s with a horse and buggy in the foreground. Someone wrote "1910" on the front of the photograph, but this is not the correct date.
Packing of the ice harvested from Lake Okabena into train cars. Photograph is taken looking north east towards Worthington, Minnesota. You can see the Nobles County Courthouse in the background.
Exterior view of the Hasting House located on Fifth Avenue and 14th Street and Humistion Avenue. A cat out by the boardwalk with two women by the house, one holding a bicycle.
Hardcover book containing maps of the villages, cities and townships of Nobles County; map of Minnesota and United States; History of Nobles County; and Historical Patrons Director. Nobles County Historical Society has a conplete index to names in the plat book and the pages those names appear on. Contact Nobles County Historical Society for information from this index.