lake city history

Our memories in stone - Adna and Charity Sanford

Jul 10, 2019

The Lake City Historical Society has an on-going project to restore the legibility of stones marking the graves of people relevant to the early history of the community. (Checks to support this work should be mailed to LCHS, PO 245, Lake City, MN 55041.) For this issue of the Graphic, the featured...

Our memories in stone - William and Mary Webster

Sep 19, 2018

TV segment on Samuelson skis airs April 26

Apr 24, 2018

A film crew from the television show “Mysteries of the Museum” sets up in the City Hall Ballroom in Lake City to film a segment about Ralph Samuelson’s water skis last December. Samuelson invented the sport of water skiing on Lake Pepin in 1922. The segment will air tonight (Thursday, April 26) at...

New phase for very old tree

Jan 31, 2018

It’s the end for a burr oak tree at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) field office in Lake City. The tree that has stood there since before the DNR built the building – and maybe since before the city was founded – contracted oak wilt in recent years. An attempt at treatment...

Our memories in stone - Grace Bartlett

Nov 9, 2017

Our memories in stone - Richard W. Neal

Sep 7, 2017

Our memories in stone - Henry and Emma Selover

Aug 10, 2017

The Lake City Historical Society has an on-going project to restore the legibility of stones marking the graves of people relevant to the early history of the community. For this issue of the Graphic, the featured gravesite is of Henry Selover (b. 1838, d. 1925) in Lakewood Cemetery.  

Historical society working to restore Lake City grave stones