ZUMBROTA The First One Hundred Years 1856-1956 Price: $5.00
(Mailing: $6.00 per book)
Created by The Zumbro Valley Historical Society, Centennial Book Committee, Zumbrota, Minnesota 1956. Sections include "List of Illustrations," "Early History of Zumbrota," "Village Government and Affairs," "Churches, Past and Present," "Zumbrota's Organizational History," "Zumbrota Schools," "Business History of Zumbrota," "Veterans and Military," "Feature Section," "Items of Interest from 1854-1956," "Townships and Forest Mills," "Centennial Highlights," and an "Index." A generous number of photos within 398 pages.
Zumbrota The Next Fifty Years 1956-2006 Price: $5.00
(Mailing: $6.00 per book)
Created by the Zumbrota Area Historical Society, copyrighted in 2006, honoring their Sequicentennial. Produced by Interface Publishing, 241 First Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55401. Sections include "Forward," "Short History of Zumbrota," "Village Government and Affairs," "The Covered Bridge," "Churches, Past and Present," "Organizations," "Zumbrota Schools," "Business History of Zumbrota," "Items of Interest 1956-2006," "Townships," "Acknowledgements," and "Zumbrota Phone Directory Covers." A generous number of photos within 349 pages.
ZUMBROTA, MINNESOTA 1856* Bridging Past and Future *2006. Price: $15.00
(Mailing: $6.00 per book)
A beautiful coffee-table book with sections on "Visions of Promise," "Growth and Development," "Expanding Horizons," and an "Epilogue." Contains 80 pages of crisp photos depicting historic Zumbrota scenes.
ZAHS: THE FIRST 20 YEARS 1999 to 2019 Price $5.00
(Mailing: $6.00 per book)
108 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 inch pages, spiral-bound, compiled from Board Minutes, ZAHS digital records, and membership data, plus renovation ledgers and communication.
Other Available Documents
Those Were The Days: stories about those Good Old Days in Zumbrota, 76-page spiral-bound document, by Duane Charles Hoven, 2014
Price $12 (For mailing, add $6)
Till the Cows Come Home (about the County Fair), 87 pages, soft cover, by Patrice Marvin & Nicholas Curchin Vrooman 1985 Price $5
Alvera's Story, 34-page spiral-bound document (about a polio victim who lived in an Iron Lung for decades), by Duane Charles Hoven circa 2007 Price $3
The Story of the Abend Drum (four-page photocopied) Price $1
55 East 3rd Street, Box 44, Zumbrota, MN 55992
Phone 507-732-7333
Email: ZumbrotaAreaHistoryCenter@gmail.com
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