Exterior view of the Motherhouse and Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Mankato, Minnesota, 1911, with message to Carl Legar in Madelia, Minnesota, postmarked Mankato.
Cabin built in the early 1860s by Tosten Estensen Boen; used as a school; replaced in 1864 by Lake Prairie Township School District 4; purchased by Norseland Lutheran Church (originally known as Nicollet Lutheran Church); used as a gathering location and later as a church school.
Lucy (Mickow) Nibbe (1911-2005) discusses her childhood in Hammond and Lake City, Minnesota her education in Lake City, and her career as a rural school teacher at Gilbert Valley and Sugar Loaf Valley, and at Bluff View in Lake City.
Brick Oneota school built in 1888 at 4420 West First Street; designed by architect Oliver Traphagen; the building also served as the Oneota Village Council Chambers before the village of Oneota became part of West Duluth; brick and brownstone with name over entrance; Romanesque windows with keystones; over the protests of families and the community club students were reassigned to the Merritt school when the Oneota was closed in 1946 then used for storage and razed in 1973 for construction of an industrial park; 16495
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
