CONGRATULATIONS TO APPLEFEST ON A SUCCESSFUL 2024 !!
La Crescent Area Historical Society was honored to participate …
Golden Apple Luncheon display and 1949 video
Apple Tasting & La Crescent History with the LaCrescent Public Library and Bruce Bauer at Spring Brook Assisted Living
Light Up La Crescent entry (rain out)
History Center (Applefest Room) /Frank Van Lin Apple Museum open
Apple Jacks Vintage Base Ball games
King Apple Parade entry
How did La Crescent become famous for apples?
To learn more about our annual festival, click on this link to the Applefest USA website.
La Crescent History Center & Apple Museum
OPEN APPLEFEST SATURDAY Noon – 4
SEPT 9 & 16 AND OCT 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2-6 pm
FOR TOUR INFORMATION AT EXPLORE LA CROSSE, CLICK ON
Bluff to Bluff Trolley Tours
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THE LA CRESCENT HISTORY CENTER
& APPLE MUSEUM
OPEN SATURDAYS Noon – 4 pm
Stroll through the displays in the house
Visit the Apple Museum in the big red shed
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THANKS TO A GRANT FROM THE ARLIN FALCK FOUNDATION,
WE ENCLOSED THE PORCH ON THE BACK OF THE HOUSE,
A MUCH-NEEDED UPDATE THAT GIVES US MORE DISPLAY SPACE !!
NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD
Newsletters from the Community in World War II
Sent to Local Men and Women in Military Service
&
Letters Those Men and Women Wrote Home
Click on WWII Letters Home at the top of this page
June 16, 1832
Nathan Boone and his survey crew
reach the area that is now La Crescent
This is a transcription from Boone’s original field notes.
The field notes are in the National Archives.
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Click on 1832 LAND SURVEY at the top of this page to learn more
THANKS TO
LA CRESCENT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
4TH GRADE CLASSES AND THEIR TEACHERS
FOR VISITING in 2022
What a surprise! Quinn Jore, 4th grader,
saw her great grandmother’s photograph on a display shelf.
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IN MEMORY OF
Gordon M. Fay 1924-2022
La Crescent native
Past Recipient of the Historical Society’s Heritage Award
His heart never left La Crescent
MARKING A SIGNIFICANT EVENT IN HISTORY
Nathan Boone’s land survey
of the Neutral Ground in 1832
HISTORICAL MARKERS
Along the Wagon Wheel Trail, south Shore Acres Road (above)
and along Skunk Hollow Road
LEARN MORE: Click on 1832 LAND SURVEY (top of this page)
Gratitude to Our Boone Project Partners
City of La Crescent
La Crescent Public Library
La Crescent Township
FUNDING
The project was made possible in part by the people of Minnesota through a grant funded by an appropriation to the Minnesota Historical Society from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
PROJECT ADVISORS
Don Borcherding, a licensed professional surveyor with 45 years’ experience in land surveying, survey research, and survey history
Gwen Westerman, a scholar of Dakota history and language and a professor in English at Minnesota State University, Mankato
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