If you have lived in Otter Tail County, submit your answers to these questions and leave a piece of history for future generations:
1. Where and when were you born?
2. Where and when have you lived anywhere else?
3. When did you first settle in Otter Tail County, and where did you live within the county?
4. Name [...]
Our temporary exhibit We Chose Otter Tail County opened on February 8, 2008 and runs through Oct. 15, 2008. Come and see who and why people chose to settle in Otter Tail County. We have researched the first settlers of each of Otter Tail County’s 62 townships and look at the route taken by those [...]
Friday, October 26 at 8 p.m. Admission is $3.00 per person. Members are free.
Come to the Historical Society as the museum takes on an eerie aura with darkened corridors, story tellers take to the stage to recount brutally realistic accounts of gruesome crimes and strange events from Otter Tail County’s past. Stories include the [...]
One of the most popular objects in our collection is the Powered Scoop Shovel. Staff members of the Smithsonian visited us to view this object. This is the invention which eventually became what is known today as the Bobcat™ skid-steer loader. The object was donated to the Historical Society by Eddie Velo in 1981. Eddie [...]
The 80th annual meeting of the Otter Tail County Historical Society will be held on Thursday, October 25, at the Underwood Community Center in Underwood. Stop by the Historical Society before October 11 to reserve your spot. Tickets are: $20.00/per person. Everyone must pre-register.
Our guest speaker is Ron Shebeck, President of the Farmers State Bank [...]
Otter TAil County HistoRical SocieTy… ART lives in HistorySeptember 28-29, 2007 10 a.m.-5 p.m. – Lance Albers Studio, 112 South Mill St., Fergus Falls part of the Fergus Falls Art Crawl.October 25, 2007 5:30 p.m. - Otter Tail County Historical Society Annual Mtg., Underwood Community Center.
Members of the Historical Society will soon receive the July-August 2007 newsletter in the mail. On page 3 we introduced Andrew Millard as our new Education Coordinator. Unfortunately for us, Andrew has taken a position with ISD 544 and will not be joining our staff as we had hoped.
July 24 - July 26 the Historical Society will Go Bananas for History with Hats for the Fergus Falls Public Library. Check out their website for more details - follow the Children’s Services link.
