Historically this location served for many years as the center for North Mankato's municipal services. In December of 1898 local civic leaders met to elect its first village officers. As one of their first municipal actions as a governing body was . . . — — Map (db m303031) HM
This marker is located near the big bend of the Minnesota River directly opposite the mouth of the Blue Earth River. The abandoned channel east of it is the former course of the LeSueur before it joined the Blue Earth. Most of the broad . . . — — Map (db m66715) HM
Sanitary Dairy and Schaefer Lake Dairy began in the early 1920s with only farm sales and rudimentary delivery systems. The two merged in 1926 to create Purity Dairy in a plant that they located at 110 Nicollet Avenue, but then in 1936 co-founder . . . — — Map (db m301976) HM
In 1936, Bill Tanley, a bottler for Key City Beverages, came up with the idea of building a baseball field sited at the corner of Monroe Avenue and Center Street. Originally called "Key City Park," in 1937 the ballpark was renamed Tanley Field after . . . — — Map (db m303032) HM
Local brickyards started appearing in North Mankato in the late 1880s, harvesting the area's generous supply of floodplain clay. In 1886 A.L. Wheeler and O.E. Bennett developed a brickyard at this site on 26 acres purchased from Dr. Louis.
At . . . — — Map (db m306954) HM WM
