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The History Club of Annandale, Minnesota was
formed in May of 1991.[club
history] Through the years we have enjoyed this learning
and remembering experience. The program is advertised in The
Annandale Advocate the
week before the meeting. Meetings are usually at 12:45 p.m. on the first
Monday of the month in the Senior Dining room in City Hall. It is open
to all.
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2020
- November 2 - Doug Ohman presentation at 1:00 p.m.: Minnesota's Rich Agricultural Heritage
- May 4 - Miller Family presentation: Swapper's Meet - POSTPONED
- April 6 - Deb Reitmeier presentation: Annandale Care Center - POSTPONED
- Account: Cedar Lake
- Account: French Lake Township
- Account: Albert Thayer
- Account: Annandale World War I Barracks 2804
- Account: Memorial Day
- Account: City Park on Pleasant Lake
- Account: Conservation Club
- Account: Dr. George H. Norris
- Account: Swedish Free Church of North Crow River
- Account: Clearwater Lake Resorts/Hotels/Inns
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Account:
- Account: Lake Union History
- Account: Annandale Telephone System
- Account: Lakedale Telephone Company
- Account: Fair Haven Masonic Lodge #182
- Account: Pioneer Park
- Account: Annandale Lions Club History
- Account: Annandale Royalty since 1956
- Account: Commodore Award Winners
- Account: 1916 Annalite
- Account: Old Library Building
- Account: Luce Line Railroad
- Account: Melvin Wells
- Account: Oak Realty
- Account: Swappers Meet
- Account: Howard's Plumbing
- History Plaque Project
2019
- December 2 - Andrew Walesch Concert, 2:00 p.m.
- November 4 - Kent Davidson presentation: Davidson property on Lake Sylvia
- August 5 - Jill Bishop presentation at 12:45 p.m.: Annandale Online History
- May 6 - Blaine Barkley presentation: Are there Sears homes in Annandale?
- April 1 - Paula Petty presentation at 12:45: Flygare Honey Farm
- March 4 - Chad Lewis presentation at 1:00 p.m.: Minnesota Gangsters
- January 14 - Jim Miller presentation: Miller's Jewelry
2018
- February 5 - Cynthia Chrast presentation: Sunset Ridges
- April 4 - Judy Figge presentation: Figge Figge Chevrolet
- May 7 - Doug Triplett presentation: Changes in Farming
- October 8 - Paula Petty presentation: Petty Brother's Meats
- December 3 - Jan McGinnis presentation: St. Mark's Episcopal Church
2017
- February 6 - Garry Elfstrand presentation: Gedney Pickle Factory
- March 6 - Garry Elfstrand presentation: Annandale Airfield
- May 1 - Gary Elfstrand presentation: 1903 Bandit Raid
- Account: South Haven Bandit Raid
- June 5 - Linda (Bahr) Olson presentation: Bahr School Bus Company
- August 7 - Jill Bishop presentation: Annandale Methodist Church printable pdf with photos
- November 7 - Arna Rennan presentation: Norwegian Immigrants
2016
- February 1 - William Arendt presentation: Cedar Lake Conservation Club
- March 7 - Chris Lantto presentation: Lantto Store
- April 4 - Don Carlson presentation: Carlson Block and Tile Company
- Account: Brickyards
- May 2 - PBS film "The Orphan Trains"
- August 1 - Vince Lundeen presentation: Lundeen Ford
- October 3 - Skip Nolan presentation: French Lake Auto Parts
- November 7 - Doug Ohman presentation: Barn Photography
2015
- February 2 - Al Ostlund presentation: "Where Were You in WWII?"
- Account: A WWII Soldier's Story - Harold S. Anderson
- March 2 - Karen Christofferson presentation: Seven Past Churches of French Lake Township.
- April 6 - Mitchell Schmidt presentation: Annandale School Custodian for 36 Years
- May 4 - Sally Stevens presentation: Annandale Snapshots: A Photograhic History
- August 3 - Wendy Storkamp presentation: Annandale Royalty Program
- October 5 - Renee Logeais and Ed & Jean Skomoroh presentation: History of Food Shelf
- November 2 - Blaine Barkley presentation: Dayton's Furniture
- Account: John Buri, Annandale's First Mayor
2014
- February 3 - Marc Mattice presentation: Wright County Parks
- March 3 - Norm Heino presentation: Westward Migration in the 1800s
- April 7 - Susie Keskey presentation: Temperance Corner
- May 5 - Marilyn Gordon presentation: Lost Settlements
- August 4 - Eric Hylen presentation: Model Ts
- October 6 - Jerry Specht presentation: History of Extension in Wright County
- November 3 - Delores Laffolette (of AARP) presentation: Fraud and Scams Directed to Seniors
2013
- February 4 - Steve Niklaus presentation: Annandale Public Schools
- March 4 - Sheriff Joe Hagerty presentation - History of the Wright County Sheriff's Department
- April 1 - Jill Bishop & Laura Hood Beckman presentation - 1922 School Building ReUse Study
- May 6 - Ron Graham presentation: Pan Motor Company Fraud and the Rise of the First Better Business Bureau
- August 5 - Sue Heibel presentation: Elijah "Pappy" Rice, Blacksmith and Gunsmith at Albright's Mill
- Account: Albright's Mill
- October 7 - History of the Annandale Fire Department presentation
- November 4 - Vicki Lantto presention: Sami History (indigenous people of northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland)
2012
- February 6 - Aloys Olson presention: Antiques Roadshow
- March 5 - Steve Briggs presentation: Postcard Collecting
- April 2 - Ardis Hollermann presentation: Kersten Family History (pioneer family)
- May 7 - Mark Arenson presentation: Arenson's Pharmacy
- August 6 - Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association, 75 years, 1937-2012
- October - Jeff Herr: Annandale Police Department
- November 5 - Dean Urdahl presentation: Pursuit and Conspiracy (two books)
2011
- Dr. Lawrence Schut presentation: What Your Family's Past Can Tell You About Your Future
- Mary Johnson presention: Tour of Kimball City Hall
- Barb Ostlund & Karen Christofferson presentation: 20th Anniversary of Annandale History Club
- Carol Weir presentation: Annandale Depot and Train Wrecks
- Ed Otto presentation: History of Surveying
- Alton Chermak presentation: Annandale - The coming of the Railroad and the Early Years
- Lloyd Walburn presentation: Boy Scouts in Annandale
- Mary Larson presentation: Growing Up on an Indian Reservation
2010
- Arnie Gruys presentation: Dutch Pioneers in Silver Creek Township
- Karen Christofferson - Lake Francis History Book
- Tom Lampi presentation: Lampi Auction
- Richard Tormanen presentation at the Wright County Heritage Center: The Path of Finnish Immigration
- Marv Marohn presentation: Marketplace
- Ed Kaz presentation: American Legion Post 176
- Brian Partridge presentation: Pioneer Methodist Churches
- Mary Barkley Brown presentation: Julia Barkley, Artist
- Dean Urdahl presentation: His book: Retribution
2009
- Karen Christofferson: presentation on The Armistice Day Storm
- Henry Smith presentation: Silver Creek
- Art Geisinger presentation: Guillain Barre Syndrome
- Jill Bishop and Rose Mary Nelson presentation: Annandale Improvement Club
- Mark Raisanen presentation: Saunatec, Inc.
- Carol Weir Presentation: Tour of Pioneer Park
- Barb Owen presentation: Dr. Ridgway
- Diana Bajari and Wanda Lamprecht presentation: Ada Dawson, Artist and Poet
2008
- Carol Weir presentation: Pioneer Park
- Brian Partridge presentation: Annandale G.A.R. Post
- Sally Macnab: Wright County Historical Society Tour
- Roger & Karen Millner presentation: Annandale School Bus Company; Ken Rudolph: Horse Drawn School Buses
- Frank Schiefelbein presentation: Schiefelbein Farms
- Account of trip to the Dassel Railroad Museum
- Art Geisinger: presentation on Local Creameries
2007
- Leander Wetter presentation: Steam Engines
- Pastor Mike Nelson presentation: Grace Lutheran Church (Tour)
- Jill Bishop presentation: History Section in Annandale's website, Annandale Online
- Elwyn Nordberg presentation: Elwyn's Photography - pictures of early Annandale
- John Bendix presentation: Doctor Lester Bendix, his father
- Dean Urdahl presentation: His Book, Uprising about the Dakota Conflict of 1862
- Floyd and Maxine Brown, Kevin and Mary Brown account: Brown's Ice Cream
- Jim Stark presentation: Lake Sylvia History
2006
- Art Dingmann presentation: Funeral Care History
- Chris Jeppesen presentation: South Haven History
- Lucille Nelson presentation: Annandale's Fort Harriman
- Tom Jarl presentation: West Albion
- John Hasselberg presentation: Lake Union Covenant Church (Tour)
- Don Hausken presentation: Soo Line Railroad and the Annandale Depot
- Account: Depot Damage, Annandale Advocate, 1949
- Leslie Anderson presentation: Memories of a Country Boy/ Newspaper Man
2005
- Sandy Miller presentation: Lakedale Telephone Company, Telephone Museum Tour
- Brian Partridge presentation: Fair Haven
- Pastor Mike Nelson & Jeanette Johnson presentation: North Crow River Lutheran Church (Tour)
- Dwayne Bruns presentation: Annandale State Bank (renamed Lake Central Bank in 2017)
- Edna Glenske, Luella Dahman, Dorothy Kersten, Pastor Tim Nerud presentation: Concordia Lutheran Church, Fair Haven (Tour)
- Mike Worcester & Audrey Tack presentation: - Cokato Museum & Ackerlund Studio (Tour)
- Harvey Barberg presentation: Cokato Finnish Historical Society & Temperance Corner
- Aileen Lundeen presentation: Ice Company in Annandale
2004
- Betsy Gridley presentation: Skating in the Ice Follies
- Maureen Galvin presentation: Wright County Historical Society
- Ken Rudolph presentation: Burma Shave Signs
- Mike Worcester presentation: Akerlund Photo Studio, Cokato Museum
- Tour: Ames-Florida-Stork House, Rockford
- Karen Christofferson presentation: Lake Francis & Surrounding Area
- Paul Johnson presentation: Mount Hermon Lutheran Church (Tour) (church cemetery)
2003
- Deb Erhard presentation: Annandale Subway Store
- Sister Carol presentation: Clare's Well
- Bill Fortner presentation: Marquetry (Artwork using different color woods)
- Jim Larson presentation: Annandale Veterinary Clinic
- Chad Spaulding presentation: Annandale Chiropractic
- Karen Weiss presentation: Cat Breeder
- Elizabeth Hood Anderson presentation: Artist
- Charlene Donnelly presentation: Gardendale Nursery
2002
- Ella Geardink presentation: Geardink's Resort
- The Froyans presentation: Maple Hill Resort
- Georgeann Rumsey presentation: Camp Friendship
- Ken Rudolph presentation: Civil War Diary Letters Abraham Rudolph Journal
- Bob Holland presentation: Camp Courage
- Herold Neumann presentation: Bethlehem Lutheran Church
- Dan Zahler presentation: Zahler Phography (also took a group picture)
- Muriel Rudolph presentation: Collection of Nativity Scenes from Around the World
2001
- Julia Barkley presentation: St. Mark's Episcopal Church
- Account: St. Mark's Episcopal Church - 1980s Advocate Article by Jane Schulzetenberg
- Verna Kyllonen presentation: Our Saviour's Lutheran Church
- Trula Kersten and her Pastor Lynn Kriz presentation: Zion Methodist Church of South Haven (church cemetery)
- Bill Lieb presentation: Early Day Railroads in the Area
- Karen Christofferson & Debbie Schauer presentation: Immanuel Lutheran Church
- Wesley Danielson presentation: Making the Alaskan Highway
- Viola Larson presentation: Memories of Annandale
2000
- Alice Thompson and friends presentation: St John's Lutheran Church (account) (church cemetery) (church website)
- Darrell and Ellen Kelly presentation: St. Ignatius Church (church cemetery) (church website)
- Pastor Queck and some members presentation: Zion Lutheran Church (church cemetery)
- Ken Rudolph presentation: Annandale Methodist Church (church cemetery)
- Kerm Lundeen and Pastor Gary Partridge presentation: Annandale Free Church (church website)
- Roger Belknap presentation: Middleville Lutheran Church
- Viola Larson presentation: Albion Free Church
1999
- Jim Rudolph presentation: Stamp Collecting
- Nita Cherry presentation: Volunteering at the Annandale Care Center
- Bill and Trula Kersten presentation: Life on the Farm
- Marilyn Gordon presentation: Antiques (show & tell)
- Patty Dease presentation: Earthway Farms
- Sandy Otto presentation: Annandale Library History
- Mark and Laurel Miller presentation: History of Miller's Jewelry Store
- Chris Lantto presentation: French Lake Store
- Viola Larson presentation: Life of Esther
1998
- Don Figge presentation: Chevy Garage & His Time as Mayor of Annandale
- Eleanor Partridge presentation: Working in the Annandale School Office
- Ed Kaz presentation: Kaz Hardware Store
- Bernie Weber presentation: Greenhouse Business
1997
- Daryl Gunnerson presentation: Development of Southbrook
- Wally Houle presentation: Innovations and accomplishments while Mayor of Annandale
- Donna Anderson presentation: Forty Years of Cake Decorating
- Dwayne Bruns presentation: Annandale State Bank Early Mergers & History
- Julia Barkley presentation: Dayton's Furniture Store
- George Arenson presentation: Arenson's Drug Store
- Walle Houle presentation: Holy Land Trip (slides)
- Lillian Logeais presentation: Shell Oil Station
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HISTORY CLUB COMMITTEE:
as of January, 2018
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Russ Fortner, Co-chair Bob Bayard, Co-chair Blaine Barkley, Technology Jill Bishop, Website Judy Martin |