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We want your history
The Edina Historical Society focuses on one topic: Edina. We actively collect objects, photographs, and documents directly related to the city of Edina. These items must have historic connections to the geographic area where Edina currently resides and the people who have lived, or been actively involved, within the geographic area.
Our collection includes artifacts and archives that help tell the stories of Edina, including its homes, people, neighborhoods, schools, city government, environment, organizations and businesses.
We can't order Edina history from a catalog. We depend on you to donate photographs, documents and objects that help tell the story. We collect new items as well as old. The 2009 Edina High School yearbook is just as important as the first one issued in 1951. We document the first skyscraper as well as the first farm. And we want your story to add to those of the first Edina settlers.
Topics being researched for upcoming exhibits:
- Edina Schools
- The Immigrant Experience
- Keep the Faith - Edina Churches
- Politics in Edina
- Prohibition
Our Wishlist:
- Morningside phone directories - We need phone books for Morningside addresses during the years when Morningside was a separate village (1920 to 1966).
- Prohibition era (1920-1933) objects, photographs, clothing, distillery equipment
