Destination Sites
How to get there: located at 424 Warren Street in downtown Mankato.
What you will find: Exhibits, a fully staffed Research Center for historians and genealogists, an extensive book and gift shop featuring unique local items such as Marian Anderson fine art prints and a community art gallery.
Services at this site: Yes
The Blue Earth County History Center Museum showcases items from the Society’s collection and reflects the rich heritage of Blue Earth County. Exhibits feature people, places, and events that shaped the county including Native American tools and artifacts, a diorama of downtown Mankato in the 1880s, a dugout canoe and an interactive Discovery Lab.
The name Blue Earth, applied to the river and the county, come from the Dakota word for the earth found along the rivers in this area, Makato, which also was the origin of the name Mankato.
Things to Do: Destination Site, Museum, U.S. - Dakota War of 1862
Location
424 Warren Street
Mankato, MN 56001
