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Julie Schrader is a long-time Mankato area resident, author, historian, and owner of Minnesota Heritage Publishing. She also authors the blog, Betsy-Tacy's Deep Valley.
Photo Courtesy Maud Hart Lovelace’s Deep Valley by Julie A. Schrader - Gottlieb Schmidt & Son Harness, Saddles & Trunks, ca. 1890 This business survived over four generations of family management. Schmidt’s was Mankato’s oldest retail business until it closed in 1986 after 127 years in business. Note the iconic dapple gray wooden horse in the front of the shop. Mankato-born author Maud Hart Lovelace wrote about it in the Betsy-Tacy books
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The Schmidt House: A Time Remembered

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Cray House, 603 South 2nd Street, circa 1927
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Cherished Memories: The Cray House

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April 9, 1934 Mankato Free Press
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Tangled Web of Crime – Mankato’s Gangster Ties Part 2

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Minneapolis Daily Star - August 12, 1927 describing the hunt for James Barrett
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Profile of a Bootlegger – Mankato’s Gangster Ties

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Photo Courtesy of Blue Earth County Historical Society - Home of Parsons King and Laura Johnson family in 1865. The house was built in 1854. L-R: Laura, Frank, Clarence, Parsons King, Charles and Julia.
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Mankato’s Pioneer Women

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Photo from The Mankato Free Press - The Immortal Trio - L-R: Frances Kenney Kirch (Tacy), Maud Hart Lovelace (Betsy), and Marjorie Gerlach Harris (Tib). This photograph was taken outside Lincoln School (now Lincoln Community Center) in October 1961 when the three attended “Betsy-Tacy Days” in Mankato.
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A Special Homecoming: Mankato Residents Share Memories of Author Maud Hart Lovelace’s Visit to Mankato in 1961

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Photo from The Mankato Free Press - The Immortal Trio - L-R: Frances Kenney Kirch (Tacy), Maud Hart Lovelace (Betsy), and Marjorie Gerlach Harris (Tib). This photograph was taken outside Lincoln School (now Lincoln Community Center) in October 1961 when the three attended “Betsy-Tacy Days” in Mankato.
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A Special Homecoming: Author Maud Hart Lovelace Honored in Mankato in 1961

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Submitted Photo - This bird’s eye view of Mankato shows Main Street leading up the hill to the edge of town, circa. 1906
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What’s in a Name: The History of Mankato’s Streets

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Photo from the Library of Congress - General William T. Sherman, center, leaning on the breach of a cannon, with his staff at Federal Fort No. 7 near Atlanta, Georgia in this stereopticon slide.
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A Civil War Hero’s Gift to Mankato – John Eaton Tourtellotte

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Photo Courtesy of the Minnesota American Legion Archives - American Legion Auxiliary spring conference at the St. Paul Hotel March 27, 1931.
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Dr. Helen Hughes Hielscher – Founder of the American Legion Auxiliary

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