What a wonderful look at life in the 1800’s.  This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Rice County and its people.

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original book published in 1882.

History

 of

Rice County,

Minnesota

Including

Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota,

And

Outline History of the State of Minnesota.

By Rev. Edward D. Neill:

Also

Sioux Massacre of 1862,

And

State Education

By Charles S. Bryant

Minneapolis:

Minnesota Historical Company

1882

605 pages on 1 CD

An essential resource for Genealogists

Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect.

This book on CD is SEARCHABLE * 

CONTENTS

Chapter I-XXIII. Explorers and pioneers of Minnesota 
Chapter XXIV-XXVII. Outline history of the state of Minnesota 
Chapter XXVIII-XXIX. State education 
Chapter XXX-XLIII. History of the Sioux Massacre of 1862 
Chapter XLIV. Chronology 
Chapter XLV-XLIX. Rice County 
Chapter L-LI. City of Faribault
Chapter LII-LIII. City of Northfield 
Chapter LIV. Bridgewater Township 
Chapter LV. Wheeling Township 
Chapter LVI. Richland Township 
Chapter LVII. Walcott Township 
Chapter LVIII. Forest Township 
Chapter LIX. Wells Township 
Chapter LX. Warsaw Township 
Chapter LXI. Cannon City Township 
Chapter LXII. Webster Township 
Chapter LXIII. Wheatland Township 
Chapter LXIV. Erin Township 
Chapter LXV. Northfield Township 
Chapter LXVI. Shieldsville Township 
Chapter LXVII. Morristown Township 

Index. Explorers and pioneers of Minnesota 
Index. Outline history of the state of Minnesota 
Index. State Education 
Index. The Sioux Massacre of 1862

Index. History of Rice County

GENERAL HISTORY.

Agricultural

Census from 1850—'80

Centennial celebration

Clerk of Court

County organization

County Government

County officers

County Associations

Crops

Descriptive

Description of Townships

Documents

Drainage

Early settlers

Educational

Faribault Herald

Faribault Republican

Financial report

Frosts

General remarks

Geology

Gopher hunt

Indians

Limestones

Ladies' Aid Society

Minnesota admitted as a State

Maps

Newspapers

Organization of school districts

Population in 1855

Railroads

Registry of Deeds

Religious

Salaries of county officers

Senators

Situation and area

Soldiers' Aid Society

Surface and soil

Timber

Transfer of lands

Voting precincts

War meeting

War record

CITY OF FARIBAULT.

Accidental shooting

A Catamount shot

Additions

Amber cane company

An avalanche

Banking houses

Barron House burned

Biographical

Breweries

Burned to death

Business houses

Business men

Bus line

Catholic church burned

Cemetery Association

Churches

Cigar factory

City Government

Congregational church dedicated

Corner stone of Shattuck grammar

school laid

Crown Point Roller Mill

Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, schools for

Deaths

Descriptive

Disastrous fire

Faribault driving park

Faribault elevator burned

Fatal accident

First frame building

First religious meeting

First National Bank

Fire

First Mayor

Fire department

Fraternal orders

Freighting

Fruit Growers' Association

Furniture and chair factory

Gas Company

Ginseng

Good Templars Lodge

Golden weddings

Grange mill burned

Horticultural Society

Industrial enterprises

Ironworks

Killed by a fall

Ladies' Benevolent Association

Ladies' Literary Association

Legislative excursion

Lime stone quarries

Literary associations

Liquor question

Lumber yard

Manny, Rev. S. W.

Masonic Hall dedicated

Mills

Mills burn

Miller's Association elevator

Musical societies

New buildings

Police department

Post-office

Postmaster appointed

Proprietors of the town

Public schools

Regatta

Removal of Sioux

Reunion at Barron House

Reunion of First Minnesota Volunteer

Infantry

Robbery

Saw and grist mill

Scandinavian Literary Society

Seabury Hall burned

Seabury Divinity School

Shields, Gen

Shattuck grammar school burned

Re- opened

Shattuck Guards excursion

Shattuck school

Silver weddings

Stage line

St. Mary's Hall opened

Storm

Student's Literary Association

Stone manufacturing company

Straight River Flour Mill

St. Mary's Hall

Turner's Society

Wagon works

Whipple, Lieut. J. C.

Woolen mill

CITY OF NORTHFIELD.

Association and Societies

Bank robbery and murder

Banks

Biographical

Carleton College dedicated

Carleton College Observatory

Carleton College officers

Carleton College commencement day

Early settlers

Births

Marriages

Deaths

Educational

Elevator

First stores

Fire

Fire department

Golden wedding

Indians

Introduction

Location

Mills

North, John W

Old Town Hall

Political

Police force

Post-office

Religious

Ruby wedding

Sliver wedding

Stage line

St. Olaf's school

Terrible accident

Water power

Waterford

BRIDGEWATER.

Biographical

Dundas village

Descriptive

Early settlers

Educational

Female monster

First death

Marriage

Murder

Post-office

Political

Religious

WHEELING.